I was cast in a play at the Lafayette Civic Theatre Play Festival! I will be playing an aging stoner, like totally typecast, man.
I also wrote one of the plays which will be presented as well. If you want a double-dose of seeing your good pal Scotto do creative comedy stuff, then mark your calendar for the last weekend in June.
Guest speaker: Scottish actor & playwright Matthew Zajac, who will be also performing his critically acclaimed play THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS – the first performance of this play in France
British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic Hall Caine was born #OTD in 1853.
Caine's most famous work is "The Manxman," published in 1894. Caine's other novels include "The Deemster" (1887), "The Scapegoat" (1891), "The Eternal City" (1901), and "The Christian" (1897), among many others. He also wrote several plays, including adaptations of his own novels for the stage.
Judi Dench proves again that she's not remotely lovely or fluffy, as she's often portrayed.
ICYMI - she professed a wish to have Harvey Weinstein's name "tattoeed on her bum" during a promotional interview for Philomena, broadcast on Kermode and Mayo's Film Review podcast.
I know #MeToo hadn't risen to prominence at that time, but given his behaviour was widely acknowleged to be "an open secret in Hollywood", it's extremely unlikely she wasn't aware. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/14/judi-dench-trigger-warning-people-should-avoid-theatre/ #Theatre
French poet, dramatist, and novelist Jean Aicard died #OTD in 1921.
He was associated with the Parnassian movement, which emphasized formalism, craftsmanship, and the use of classical mythology and historical themes in poetry. He was also a prolific playwright and novelist. One of Aicard's most famous works is the novel "Le Roi de Camargue" (The King of Camargue), was published in 1872.
"Cigales, mes sœurs,
Qu'importe à nos cœurs
La richesse des granges pleines?
Pourvu que nos voix
Sonnent par les bois
Quand midi flambe sur les plaines?
...
Par les froids hivers
Nous n'allons pas vers
Ceux qui n'ont pas la voix ou l'aile;
Dès qu'a fui l'été,
Nous avons été...
Mais notre gloire est immortelle."
Chanson des cigales
~Jean François Victor Aicard (4 February 1848 – 13 May 1921)
The first stage performance in England of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr.
The first production was in Paris in 1896. Because the play depicted biblical characters it was banned in Britain and was not performed publicly there until 1931.
The première of Luigi Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore at the Teatro Valle in Rome divides the audience.
An absurdist metatheatric play about the relationship among authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners, it premiered at the Teatro Valle in Rome to a mixed reception, with shouts from the audience of "Manicomio!" and "Incommensurabile!", a reaction to the play's illogical progression.
The première of Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte) at the Residenz Theatre in Munich is disrupted by Nazi demonstrators, hooting, whistling and throwing stink bombs at the actors on the stage.
This production was directed by Erich Engel, with set design by Caspar Neher. The cast included Otto Wernicke as Shlink the lumber dealer, Erwin Faber as George Garga, and Maria Koppenhöfer as his sister Mary.
German Poet, Playwright, Historian Friedrich Schiller died #OTD in 1805.
Initially intended for the priesthood, in 1773 he entered a military academy in Stuttgart and ended up studying medicine. His first play, The Robbers, was written at this time and proved very successful. His major plays include "Don Carlos", and the Wallenstein trilogy, which delves into the tumultuous period of the Thirty Years' War.
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Drei Hymnen"
Kyrie, Credo und Agnus Dei
aus "Missa solemnis D-Dur op. 123"
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Sinfonie Nr. 9 d-Moll op. 125
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Chen Reiss Sopran
Sara Fulgoni Mezzosopran
Michael Schade Tenor
Florian Boesch Bass
WDR Rundfunkchor
Nicolas Fink Einstudierung
Orchester Wiener Akademie
Martin Haselböck Leitung