Menu Skip to primary content Search Drew Lichtenberg Dramaturg and Theater Critic Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests) Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and "The Bottom Translation," but there are worse fates than to be Kott’s amanuensis. -D...
Read in the Substack appOpen appShakespeareKnights and Hawkes: inside Shakespeare's dreamShakespeare and his critics. Part I: is character real?Henry Oliver Mar 6, 2024 ∙ Paid Was Cordelia real?In May 1994, an undergraduate called Pamela Bunn posted a comment in the online community known as Shaksper, asking about Cordelia’s "character development." Bunn was wondering how to best convey on stage all the large emotions Cordelia would be feeling in the opening of King Lear. Terence Hawkes, one ...
Pablo Berger’s "Robot Dreams" might be created via simple animation in terms of the details of the anthropomorphic characters, but it doesn’t lack detail within the environment the film is set in. The opening scene alone showcases Dog’s loneliness as he heats up Mac and Cheese for dinner and sits down on his sofa. Meanwhile, in the background, we see a couple (a giraffe and a hippo) sitting down in their apartment opposite to watch a sitcom to finish their dinner. This occurs before Dog notic...
Spanish director Pablo Berger, known for his black-and-white silent film Blancanieves and Abracadabra, has ventured into a new realm with his latest project, animated bromance with melancholic pang Robot Dreams. The silent film, nominated for best European animation film, explores themes of friendship, loss, and nostalgia through the story of a dog and its robot companion. We meet in the center of Berlin; Berger arriving is animated and full of energy, willing to discuss any subject m...
Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...
DreamQuil: Elizabeth Banks & John C. Reilly To Star In A.I. Thriller, HanWay Film Shopping It At Cannes MarketAnother day, another intriguing thriller hits the Cannes market. Deadline reports that HanWay Films has a thriller about the dangers of AI on the Croisette with Elizabeth Banks and John C. Reilly in the leads. Its title? "DreamQuil," and, no, that isn’t also the title for a new sleep medication.READ MORE: Brie Larson & Paul Dano Join Ruben Ostlünd On The 2023 Cannes JuryInstea...
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTSI’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media July 2-7, 2023 in MontrealDEADLINE March 31, 2023CORERISC: the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk, and The Sociability of Sleep seek participants for a week-long writing workshop (July 2-7, 2023) centered on sleep in 21st century horror media. We aim to explore how horror media–from films to television to social media–responds to the conditions of sleep as a site of embodied risk today....
More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...
Unpleasant dreams occur much more frequently than many people realise. If one is a hedonistic utilitarian—or, at least, one thinks that dreams have positive or negative moral value in virtue of their experiential quality—then one has considerable reason to try to make such dreams more positive. Given it is possible to improve the quality of our dreams, we ought to be promoting and implementing currently available interventions which improve our dream experiences, and conducting research to fi...
Dreams are scary. In The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg puts his own childhood up on the big screen, through the Dream Factory, with the help of many of his regular collaborators, including screenwriter Tony Kushner (Munich, Lincoln), John Williams (Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park) and Janusz Kaminski (Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, West Side Story), among others. His story starts from his parents taking him as a young child, Sam, to the movies to see The Greatest Story Ever Tol...
Dream Log: March 17, 2001 (idea) See all of Dream Log: March 17, 2001, there are 2 more in this node. I had a dream about lucid dreams. No kidding! Prologue: I had just come home from the bar. It was three AM. While I was brushing my teeth i remembered the e2 node about lucid dreams and tried to levitate the soap dispenser. It didn't happen, as expected. Then I went to bed. Sometime in the early morning I started having these dreams. The first one was about an environmental...
September 10, 2022 (dream) See all of September 10, 2022, no other writeups in this node. It begins with the walnut orchard. The house and gardens are to the west, the road to the south. I know this house well in the waking world. It's the site of my first Thanksgiving, where I first started meeting Christine's family and friends. In the front garden is the olive tree where we were married. There's the studio apartment where I lived for several years until very recently. I have many...
Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...
Clip source: The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565) – The Public Domain Review The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of ...
Colin Farrell in After Yang Photo: A24 One of the more-hyped and well-reviewed movies of last week’s Sundance Film Festival, After Yang stars Colin Farrell in a Her-tinged sci-fi domestic drama about a malfunctioning robot and the little girl that loves it. Video essayist Kogonada’s second feature follows in the quiet, clean-lined minimalism of his first, Columbus, with an added dose of ambition. The sci-fi reality of Afte...
Weird Dreams Train Our Brains to Be Better Learners by Jim Davies Oct 13, 2021 6 minutes Neural networks need to "dream" of weird, senseless examples to learn well. Maybe we do, too.Photo Illustration by MDV Edwards / ShutterstockFor many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days,...
Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava is nominally a slice of social realism, set in Bradford near the filmmaker’s native Otley in northern England. Its protagonists are both working-class individuals coping with struggles at home: Ali (Adeel Akhtar), a part-time DJ and full-time landlord, still lives with his estranged wife (Ellora Torchia), while Ava (Claire Rushbrook), an Irish-born teacher, resides in a house that isn’t large enough to comfortably accommodate her many children and grandchildren. T...
Dream and Fly by •ღ Anita ღ• used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Writing dreams allows us to discard the last vestiges of reality and embrace wild surrealism, paint colorful metaphors, or explore the inner workings of our characters. Unfortunately, standard-issue dreams come with a problem: they don’t matter. Without impacting future events, they’ll feel like a tangent or a cheap route to excitement. Thankfully, we can change that, especially in speculative fiction. Let’s look at five w...
Hartland History Hartland Area Project I. One Man's Dream Behind every idea such as the Hartland Area Project is a personality. In this case it was Mr. J. Robert Crouse, Sr. who was born in the village of Hartland. As a small boy he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents. Later he graduated from the University of Michigan. His fortune was made through a successful business partnership, in the electrical and ...
Symbolism is to convey the hidden meaning to the reader or listener. It tells us about artistic expression and represents abstract ideas. However, it is not limited to poetry and literature. Symbolism is one of the most important elements which gives depth to art; it can be the color of the painting or the depiction of characters that are significant to symbolic to some specific themes. A painter uses symbolism when he wants to put emotions and ideas in the picture which we can’t experience ...
Northwest Passage Quotes Download Northwest Passage Study Guide Subscribe Now "Men Who Hunt Perpetually For Their Personal Northwest Passage" (Magill's Quotations in Context) Context: This quotation, serving as the foreword to the first book of Northwest Passage, a novel of exploration and adventure during the latter half of the eighteenth century, fittingly reflects the theme and subject matter of the book as a whole. It is the story of two men, one with a...
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream (person) See all of Dream, there are 7 more in this node. (person) by Zach Wed Dec 20 2000 at 11:12:40 Dream is one of The Endless as depicted in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series of comic books. He is simply a figment of one man's imagination, and the fact he has been indirectly mentioned countlessly throughout history and literature as a dark brooding gentleman who sprinkles dust into people's eyes and directs them to a land...
Is Mia's visiting Amsterdam a metaphorical expression of going to Los Angeles? The real world one I mean. Mia allows herself to go into her self-exploration mode in the opposite way that we do in the real world. Our entertainment retreat - the film world - becomes Mia's and Vincent's work world -- their real world is in the story. But for us it's the reverse: we go to work and live our dramatic lives, while Mia visits her dream world (our real world) as Uma Thurman. is Holland: HAL landHO...
