It's the Holidays!
But today's little designer treat is an elegant on-line inspirograph - very cool! Find it HERE.
What else have I been up to? Well, The Explorers Club opened to good reviews (including set mentions), so that went well. (If you don't see this funny show at Stage West in Fort Worth, please see it at WaterTower Theatre when it moves to Addison.) I've just emailed off the construction drawings for Godspell, to be built and played in the San Francisco area. I'm sketching away at ideas for Asher, the dramatization of a long-time favorite book My Name Is Asher Lev. For anyone interested in art and the artist's life the book's examination of the conflict between artistic truth and personal and family feeling, between tradition and growth, is fascinating. Chaim Potok is a good writer, but this is my favorite of his novels.
Speaking of books - I'm reading William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy. A hoot! Very funny. But even when the novelty of the iambic pentameter wears off, the author (really a guy named Ian Doescher channeling The Bard... if The Bard sat through a LOT of Star Wars rewatchings) gives characters clever soliloquies - like the priceless musings of the rancor's keeper. Even sideline characters have comments on Imperial architecture. And, you know, it's just flat a good story.
I'd love to see this actually staged.
Perfect for Shakespeare and/or Star Wars fans!
William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy
Illustrations by Nicolas Delort,
Author Ian Doescher.
Quirk Books & Lucasfilm Ltd.
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