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Theatre: Sunny Side Up

neandellus wrote 1 week ago: Sunny Side Up, by Kerith Manderson-Galvin Sample Theatre @ Glitch Wed. 17 Jun to Sun. 28 Jun. It was … more →

Tags: Examen, Brigid Gallacher, glitch bar, Hannah Cuthbertson, Isabel Zbukvic, Jasmine Marchesi, Kerith Manderson-Galvin, Matthew Lorenzon, Rachel Zbukvic

Socrates and the original think tank15 comments

andreaskluth wrote 3 weeks ago: Aristophanes And so we continue this thread on Socrates, and the profound ways that he is still with … more →

Tags: History, Academy, Aristotle, lyceum, Plato, Socrates, Think Tanks, thinkery, WorDs

this play is funny as hell2 comments

max wrote 4 weeks ago:   i caught my friend Michelle’s— Play The Wasps tonight. [Which was pretty damn c … more →

Tags: Humor, All, Women, writing, Friends, Art, the wasps, michelle sutter, meryl friedman

Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dude2 comments

writechicpress wrote 1 month ago: The one year round resident of Andy’s Motel is an artist and a college student.  Justin Weinma … more →

Tags: Art, Artists, Blogging, Entertainment, Literature, News Headlines, description, Deviant Art, Homer

Theater Matters - Notes from EMOS 2009 Part II3 comments

lawler wrote 1 month ago: It’s 11am where I’m from (9am here on the west coast), and I just woke up. The schedule … more →

Tags: Drama, ecoTheater, Environment, green theater, Green Theater: How-To, Performing Arts, sustainability, sustainable design, Theater

And . . . done.3 comments

mjjhoskin wrote 1 month ago: Yesterday I finished the Reading List Exams for U of T’s MA in Classics.  This was the conclus … more →

Tags: posts that mention ancient stuff, Classics, Ancient Stuff, Atticus, Bacchae, callimachus, cicero, Eurpides, Greek

Aristophanes

Tel wrote 2 months ago: Aristophanes (c. 450 BC – 385  BC) Greek Playwright Aristophanes was the greatest comic playwr … more →

Tags: Greek, Playwright, greek playwright

Sex For Pleasure... or for Power?7 comments

Caroline - Duke wrote 2 months ago: Sex is a powerful tool. It can bring pleasure (lots and lots of pleasure), create babies, cause hear … more →

Tags: reality, sex, FEMALE POWER, feminist, genocide, Kenya, Kenyan women, Mwai Kibaki, Power

Stoicism

severalfourmany wrote 2 months ago: Sun May 10 17:08:48 2009 I would argue that Stoicism as a philosophy was a replacement for active pa … more →

Tags: History, Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Theater, ethics, Greek history, roman history, Aristotle

Sex Boycotts

educlaytion wrote 2 months ago: Life imitated art this week in Africa as some Kenyan women called a play from the playbook of classi … more →

Tags: Our Crazy World, News, Africa, COLUMBIA, drug war, Ginsberg, Greek play, heffner, Kenya

The Parable of the Good Alcoholic.5 comments

The Clever Kris wrote 2 months ago: I figure there are two ways to burn a bridge:  whiskey, and everything else. I admit it: There … more →

Tags: Baptist, Indiana, Love, Martini, Mississippi, Money, Depression, health, Alcoholism

Desert(ed) Island Poems #9 - Rob Morris4 comments

gnunn wrote 2 months ago: Rob Morris is an original Brisbane hipster; his vernacular owning all the rush of the street. Rob ha … more →

Tags: Desert(ed) Island Poems, Another Lost Shark, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Dulcie Deamer, Five Bells, Graham Nunn, horses, Kenneth Slessor

Aristophanes’ Speech5 comments

mairsmagic wrote 2 months ago: YouTube video illustrating Aristophanes’ Speech Aristophanes, the master of Old Comedy, and … more →

Tags: 5 Aristophanes’ Speech, Plato, Symposium

Plato and the Bible

polyphant wrote 3 months ago: I have just finished reading Plato’s Symposium. So much that could be said about it… the … more →

Tags: Bible, Jewish, Philosophy, Genesis, Plato, Symposium, Creation, Talmud, Esther

Booklist 2009 # 14: Frogs by Aristophanes (trans. Paul Roche)4 comments

Eric wrote 3 months ago: Many consider Frogs by Aristophanes to be his greatest play. I would be lying if I said I agreed wit … more →

Tags: Reviews, Booklist 2009, Literature

Professionally young in Cloud Koo Koo Land March 31, 2009 2 comments

tombers wrote 3 months ago: A long time ago, in the primordial soup that was my youth, I played a character in THE BIRDS, author … more →

Tags: Celebrities, recession, sobriety, Social commentary

Redefining The Verb "To Kill"

americanathena wrote 3 months ago: Whether you are a teacher, a writer, or an avid reader, you have probably heard the advice “wr … more →

Tags: Humor, Society, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Jeff Dunham, jon stewart, lysistrata, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Ullman

Political absenteeism in ancient Athens5 comments

stoa wrote 4 months ago: The vastly celebrated Athenian democracy, still nowadays almost unanimously considered as the moth … more →

Tags: Academy, Ancient Greece, Ancient Law, Anthropology, Classicism, Education, Greece, greek literature, Hellenism

Currently Reading: The Complete Plays of Aristophanes

looeess wrote 4 months ago: I’m still attempting to read through one book each week.  Sometimes I have been known to have … more →

Tags: On the Bookshelf, Books, Reading, Literature, Plays, nlrp


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