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What I’m reading this week: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggars. I got it for 2zl at the Wroclaw International School book fair. It has been on the list for a long time. TV show I watched this week: Girls Series Finale. There were times that I thought this TV show was […]

What I’m looking at this week: The Best Polish Press Illustrators. Artists like Tomasz Broda, Joanna Concejo, Paula Dudek, Jan Kallwejt, and Rafal Szczepaniak. What theater maker I’m studying this week: Vsevolod Meyerhold. He lived in Russia (1874-1940) during turbulent times. He was quite fascinated with the traditions of commedia del arte. The ideas of […]

Tip of the week: After reading dozens of responses to questions such as “What does it feel like to breathe? What parts of the body move when we breathe?” I suggest you actually try it out. Breathe. For five minutes. And then answer the question in your own words. Answers that felt authentic received the […]

What book I’m reading: Backwards and Forwards By David Ball. It calls itself a technical manual for reading plays. It takes a very focused view of drama as being an art of action. The author suggests that the key to unlocking how plays work is to focus on what the characters do and what they […]

Here is a full list of all the shows I saw this year as part of the Theatre Olympics held in Wroclaw from 14 October – 14 November 2016. I didn’t see everything and really wish I could have attended more of the talks and performances from the “More Than Theatre” line. The festival was […]

  Presenting Shakespeare is an encyclopedic book that collects 1100 theatrical posters of Shakespeare’s plays. It includes designs from as far back as 1860 with over 50 countries and hundreds of artists represented. On the 400th anniversary of his death this tome highlights the fact that Shakespeare can be reexamined, reinterpreted and re-imagined in ways […]

On Being With Krista Tippett Brain Pickings by Maria Popova Design Matters with Debbie Millman Two podcasts and a blog. The taglines of these sites speak volumes and indicate the scale of thinking: “The big questions of meaning,” “An inventory of the meaningful life,” and “we can talk about making a difference, we can make […]