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|  | | A Shadowed Cross
"…Cross" is based on the notion of setting Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in the filmnoir genre. It is a partly lyrical - partly humorous, affectionate homage in which a moral yet immoral private detective must maintain his personal code of honor and discover the Truth despite the dangers (and/or pleasures) of a femme fatale, international art smugglers, hostile cops, a lascivious librarian, the ghost of his ex-partner and his brother, a well-intentioned monk.
A SHADOWED CROSS/b> takes the main characters from Dostoyevsky's i>"The Brothers Karamazov"/i> and sets them loose in a filmnoir setting. It is a comic homage to its sources, but decidedly i>not/i> a spoof. For, these are real characters with real desires however much the world of the play, and the language in it, is heightened.span> This heightening contributes to both the comedy and a vernacular poetry. /span>
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Furthermore while the source materials are both from the cinema and literature, the play itself | |  | | All Things Chicken
"…Chicken" is a comic vaudeville in which two guys talk about profound
things in profoundly foolish ways. It is my version of "Waiting for Godot" but set in a wasteland of
fast food restaurants and diners.
In u style="">ALL/u>/b>u style=""> THINGS CHICKEN/u>/b>, two guys talk about profound things in profoundly foolish ways. They obsess. They spar. They ask the big metaphysical questions: should they eat barbeque or fried chicken?
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This play is a serious farce - for beneath this seemingly light entertainment is contemplation of class, gender roles, the nature of love and mortality itself. But on the surface, it is a romp, a hotchpot of mistaken identity, physical buffoonery, vulgarity, rhymed couplets, alliterations and word play (e.g. “I must snare this hare before she becomes rabidly aware.”): a fractured fairy tale for adults culminates in an increasingly frenetic, farcical series of reversals.
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Ode to Janis Joplin
by Judy Joy Jones
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 Spoken Word
This CD will touch the deepest inner part of your humanness and spirit, you will never be the same after listening to the depths of struggle, the reality of life, the touching voice of truth. It will shock you, move you to tears. It w |
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