In honor of the first trailer for WW84, an excerpt from a parodic version of Samuel Beckett’s classic tragicomedy Waiting For Godot, adapted by me: Scene: A country road, on the planet Apokolips. A tree. Evening. Helena, a Huntress, sits with Kara, a Kryptonian. HELENA: Do you remember the story of the two thieves? KARA: No. HELENA: Shall…
Tag: theater
MELANCHOLYBALL Season A Is On The Way! Support Via Patreon And It’ll Happen!
This here blog Melancholyball.com is also the hub for my production company, Melancholyball Media. I’m pleased to announce that our slate of projects-in-development has reached the stage where we may as well call it what it is: A full season of independently-produced live entertainment, stage performances, videos and theme parties, ideally to culminate in production…
WAITING FOR GAL GADOT, a Tragic-Comic-Parodic Mashup of Beckett & The DC Universe (Staged Reading This Wednesday!)
So, this is happening, I wrote a mashup adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT (one of the first plays I ever saw) with DC Comics characters, notably the unbelievably-conveniently named star of WONDER WOMAN, Gal Gadot. (The WONDER WOMAN TV show starring Linda Carter was one of the first shows I followed, in reruns,…
Six Degrees Of Like Button, an ekphrastic poem
SIX DEGREES OF LIKE BUTTON (inspired in part by a preview performance of the play White Noise, by Suzan Lori-Parks) Distance OK, I get it. New York is gray. I miss the California air, with its whiff of euphoria, the hint of the holy. In Los Angeles, you don’t die at night from exposure to…