Monthly Archives: October 2013

LONDON 4: Ghosts, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, etc.

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Bill Rough

Ghosts: It’s Ibsen, of course, and one of my favorites:  in my opinion a very difficult play to do for modern audiences, dealing as it does with the sins of the father and a very unscientific venereal disease without a … Continue reading →

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LONDON 3: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Much Ado About Nothing, and One Man Two Guvnors!

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Bill Rough

Home again, and cursed with chest colds regenerated on Virgin Atlantic! I’m going to briefly hit all six of these plays in two posts, just so I can remember what I saw and what they did or didn’t do for … Continue reading →

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LONDON 2: Music, Music, Music

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Bill Rough

Here we are again, now sitting in another departure Lounge, this one at Heathrow. Almost two weeks ago it was Dulles, with much to look forward to.    Seems like yesterday … also a year ago.  Tired and eager to get … Continue reading →

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LONDON 1: Welcome Back

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Bill Rough

Many years ago, Joan and I were living in northern Vermont, and I was in the early stages of my theatre binge trips to New York.   Friends and early pre-internet research persuaded me there might actually be a cheaper way … Continue reading →

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The STEPPENWOLF Visits

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Bill Rough

  1987?  That’s a long time ago, and remains only in the dim recesses … etc. etc.  (I had to look up dates and plays online to be sure of my own history).  That was the year I last went … Continue reading →

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Side Tracking: Mom, the U.S.S. Intrepid, and the Freedom Tower,

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Bill Rough

      Here’s a REAL side line.  I just found this blog post among my drafts, originally written on April 13, 2012:  a year and a half ago.  I must have left it in draft form and forgotten to actually … Continue reading →

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On Arena Stage’s “THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN”

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Bill Rough

Just in case anyone might want to run up to the Arena Stage in Washington to see The Velocity of Autumn,  I want to talk briefly about it.  It has only four more days to go, closing next Sunday.   Being … Continue reading →

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On “DETROIT”

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Bill Rough

Detroit, not the play but the city, has been much on my mind of late.  My Dad first came there in 1910 to go to work, either for Oldsmobile or Studebaker, as a racecar driver and salesman.  Born in St. … Continue reading →

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BACK FOR MORE

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Bill Rough

Those who know me, or who know my general focus for the past few years in this blog, or who read my last entry in particular, must know by now that I’m a life-long professional playgoer – hence the title … Continue reading →

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