I open the New York Times to find that the Oscar nods are up:
I don't know.
I don't think blackface is really that funny unless you're playing Othello.
More importantly, and completely unrelated, Nashville is the home of the fabulous Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
Their professional Teaching Artists have their own web page with beautiful pictures and profiles. The company is currently offering Shakespeare Allowed a series of unusually public readings of the entire canon. It's a simple event. They put up 12 chairs and whoever shows up first gets to play, which sounds like a perfect way to start a scene or a fist fight.
They are also on Twitter.
"Among the surprises, Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for his comedic turn in “Tropic Thunder” as a self-absorbed Australian method actor who undergoes pigment alteration to play a black soldier."
I don't know.
I don't think blackface is really that funny unless you're playing Othello.
More importantly, and completely unrelated, Nashville is the home of the fabulous Nashville Shakespeare Festival.
Their professional Teaching Artists have their own web page with beautiful pictures and profiles. The company is currently offering Shakespeare Allowed a series of unusually public readings of the entire canon. It's a simple event. They put up 12 chairs and whoever shows up first gets to play, which sounds like a perfect way to start a scene or a fist fight.
They are also on Twitter.
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Thank you Michael. Also - teachers may download our guidebooks for free!
RICHARD THE THIRD http://nashvilleshakes.org/documents/Shakes_Guidebook_109_finalcropped.pdf
HAMLET
http://nashvilleshakes.org/documents/HAMLETStudyguide.pdf
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