Got word yesterday from Peggy Taphorn at Temple Theatre that I’ve been cast as Polonius and as the two clowns which director Rick St. Peter will combine into one Gravedigger. The rate of pay is no longer what it was when millionaire David Matthews was artistic director of the Temple, but it’s adequate. And I […]
However trippingly the title Six Degrees of Separation may fall from the tongue, the concept it refers to has little basis in the reality of professional theater. Few working actors are more than two or three degress of separation from any other actor, director or technician and the industry average probably is something more along […]
I drove up to Saluda today to eat lunch at The Purple Onion and buy yet another Greg Hessel candlestick from Heartwood gallery. The highlight of the trip, though, with all due respect to my goat cheese salad and Mr. Hessel’s hammered copper, was the drive itself. Bright gold and crimson canopies set against an […]
