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In just three weeks, I’ll be performing my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, as part of Winterfest, a festival of three plays at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. This article from The Times-Argus describes all three shows: Maura Campbell’s “Rosalee Was Here,” Martin Sherman’s “Rose” and my Franco-American portraits (one of which
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At the beginning of each new year, I eagerly anticipate an updated post from the World Question Center, a somewhat mysterious association of “scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world.” Each year, a new question is posed to a few dozen of the world’s biggest brains. In the past their answers have left me
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I tend to get words and phrases stuck in my head the way a little bit of music would probably get caught in the mind of a musician. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a phrase from the Christmas carol “O Holy Night” echoing around in my head: the thrill of hope. May
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Funny things can happen by accident — flatulence, Freudian slips, falls on errant banana peels — but jokes happen on purpose. Like poetry or music, jokes are composed, usually to provide pleasure, often a profound, unconscious pleasure that we might otherwise forbid ourselves. As Freud wrote in his abidingly unfunny treatise on the subject, “A
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My one-person show, “Piecework: When We Were French,” will tour to four Vermont towns just ahead of mud season! Thanks to the generous support of Burlington City Arts, I’m delighted to be headed to the following venues: Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, Vermont February 11, 12, 13 & 14 Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont March 5 Town
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I’m delighted to be reading with some of Montreal’s finest (and busiest) poets in December. Come hear some great work in the West Island! Here’s all the info: WIRE ( West Island Readers Electric) INVITES YOU FOR A WINTER WARM-UP Tuesday, December 8th – 7-9:30 pm Café Aurora, 552 Beaconsfield Blvd (south of Highway 20,
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