![]() ![]() ![]() The victim was fourteen-year-old Leonard Pelkey, a genderqueer young man described by his aunt/adopted mother Ellen as “TOO MUCH.” Leonard was an iconoclast of a kid, one for whom flamboyant expression of his unique individuality was both an existential and political necessity. Or do I? In The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, Chuck Desantis (Keith Randolph Smith), a former detective in a small town on the New Jersey shore, relates the details of a life-transforming crime that occurred a decade ago. I guess the investigation of toxic masculinity is simply in the air nowadays (gee, I wonder why?).īut I begin to digress. Yet the two plays share a central conflict: in both, a person who is deemed insufficiently masculine is targeted for violence by a bully who has abrogated to himself the privilege of defining what it takes to be a “real man”. Where the former features a spectacularly aggressive display of alpha-male peacocking, the latter centers on the story of a gentle teenager who, given the chance, would adorn himself with peacock feathers and flutter through the school hallways kicking up his custom rainbow platform sneakers. ![]() On the other end of the spectrum from Rules of Seconds is the one-person show The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, by James Lecesne. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Soon, she has a new reason to panic: her gorgeous, blue-eyed rescuer is Lucas’s brother, Joe. While suffering through a panic attack on the ferry, Beth meets a tall, sexy stranger who talks her down from her fear-and makes her heart flutter in the process. And, despite her fear of boats, she took a ferry to see Lucas’s parents just to make them happy. She agreed to marry her workaholic boyfriend, Lucas, to make him happy. She went to law school to make her grandparents happy. Sometimes the next best thing is what you’ve been looking for all along.īeth Chandler has spent her whole life pleasing others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Summary: When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, My life next door / by Huntley Fitzpatrick. 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After Hippolytus exits, the palace is stirring because Phaidra suffers – she will not eat, is nearing death, and refuses to explain what her illness could be. Hippolytus arrogantly denounces the servant and Aphrodite at once. As a result, Aphrodite says, she has caused Phaidra, Theseus’ wife and Hippolytus’ step-mother, to grow madly in love with Hippolytus, which sets the tragic course of events into motion.Īs if to confirm Aphrodite’s judgment of Hippolytus’ character, a servant sees Hippolytus honoring the statue of Artemis and urges him to honor Aphrodite as well. Hippolytus, she explains, the bastard son of Theseus, has devoted himself too fully to virginity and the goddess Artemis, and arrogantly rejects the power of sexuality and desire. The play begins when the goddess Aphrodite appears and explains that she has grown angry. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is a classic tale (tail?) of a child’s wanderlust and a mother’s assurance, and determination, that no matter where her child should roam, there is a safe place for her to come home to. The musical, based on the 1942 book by Margaret Wise Brown (“Goodnight Moon”), is finally getting its chance to shine, on stage at Second Story Rep in Redmond through April 9. The latest example is a brand new musical based on the children’s book "The Runaway Bunny”, written by local playwright Paul Lewis, in collaboration with Gabriel Carbajal and Mary Guaraldi. I’m not sure I can count the number of productions that theaters have put up over the past two seasons that were originally intended to be presented prior to, or during 2021 when everything shuttered. Its impact on the theatre community was heavy and far reaching, a true test of patience for theaters, casts, crews, audiences, and certainly creatives anticipating the presentation of their work. Presented By: Second Story Rep - Redmond, WAĬovid is many things to many people. ![]() ![]() Part of what makes this series unique is that it is not part of the wider expanding Star Wars universe, which is pretty much all of Star Wars at this point. We love anime and I think we definitely want to go back to anime at some point with Star Wars, but we felt there was so much more, so many other cultural perspectives that we showcased through this platform. ![]() What else could we see found through different countries, through different cultures?Īnd we're such big animation fans that there were so many studios globally, so many new styles, so many unique methodologies that are happening now that we thought that this would be a great opportunity to switch it up and showcase all of that and go on that kind of global tour. It lingered, and we suddenly started wondering what that could look like through all different other cultural lenses. And so ultimately with Volume 2, one of the things we noticed with Volume 1 was that not only was it amazing because it was really just good anime storytelling, anime spectacle, and anime Star Wars, but there were choices that were made throughout that could only come from creators that were from Japan, that had specific Japanese reference points historically, culturally, religiously, and just cinematic style, and that stayed with us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not an easy read at times, one might have trouble with some of the storyline. "It is a story of survival and the harsh realities to establish a Jewish homeland in Russia. Confused by the actions and betrayals of those she left behind, Regina doesn't know who to trust and what to believe, until she decides. ![]() ![]() She heads to Birobidzhan, the first Jewish Autonomous Region and located on the boarder of Russia and China. "Alina Adams takes readers on 18 year old Regina's journey while, in 1930, she flees Moscow certain she will be captured by the Kremlin. "My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region" shines a light on a little known aspect of Soviet history, namely that the first Jewish state of the 20th century was actually established on the border of Russia and China!īut it's not all a history lesson! We've got romance, friendship, betrayal, mother-daughter relationships, heroism, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak, too!ĭon't take my word for it. ![]() I've got a new book out! " My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region" was inspired by all the readers telling me how much they enjoyed the first section of "The Nesting Dolls," which dealt with the USSR in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But once we begin to count on AI to decide what to study, where to work and who to marry, human life will cease to be a drama of decision-making’. ![]() We ‘trust Netflix to recommend movies and Google Maps to choose whether to turn right or left.Have you ever consciously felt manipulated by them? Do you think we control technology or has technology come to control us? Think about some of the apps and websites that you use. Look at the section on ‘Hacking Humans’ (chapter 19, ‘Education’).Here are some talking points to get you started. Nuclear war, ecological cataclysms, technological disruptions, fake news, the threat of terrorism, the future of education, understanding ourselves – all topics perfect for dissection in what’s sure to be a memorable book club discussion. In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment, taking us through today’s most urgent issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emily finishes the quilt, in spite of her pain. The two are quickly falling in love when a family emergency calls Christopher back to Ohio without warning. When Christopher shares his tragic reasons for leaving home, Emily decides to make a quilt for him as a gesture of their friendship. When Emily is kind to him, he tries to remain distant, but he soon finds himself stealing glances at her throughout the day. Christopher's heart is still wounded from memories of home, and making new friends is the last thing on his mind-he knows the pain that comes with losing those you love. Longing for a fresh start, Christopher travels from Ohio to Bird-in-Hand. But when Christopher Hostettler arrives, his cold demeanor freezes her attempts at building a friendship. ![]() Emily Fisher is eager to meet the new employee at her father's shop in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania. But Emily believes there are enough pieces left behind to stitch together a beautiful new beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() In between is the balanced, clear and detailed story of how 60,000 men became casualties, and how the winning of Confederate independence on the battlefield was put forever out of reach. ![]() It ends with the battered Army of Northern Virginia re-crossing the Potomac some two months later, a near-run on both sides as Meade was finally unwilling to drive his equally battered Army of the Potomac into a desperate pursuit. Sears casts his net wide, beginning with Lee's meeting with Davis in May 1863, where he argued in favor of marching north, to take pressure off both Vicksburg and Confederate logistics. ![]() An outstanding battle study by the author of Chancellorsville, this comprehensive narrative will lend extra impact to the 140th anniversary this July of the climactic battle of the Civil War. ![]() |