tlynch@cobalt.cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch) (10/04/90)
This post is mainly directed at California residents, but if you happen to have travel plans for here in mid-December, read on. (If you don't, you'll just get horribly jealous. Don't say I didn't warn you. :-) ) On Saturday, December 15, at 8 pm, in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium in Pasadena, Patrick Stewart will be giving a dramatic reading of Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol". Part of the brochure is reproduced (w/o permission) below. Stewart says: "The most vexing problem of this undertaking has been how to describe it: plainly, 'A Reading'; seductive, 'A Staged Reading'; pretentious, 'An Enactment'; grandiose, 'A Dramatic Reading'; obscure, 'A Realization'; showbiz, 'An Evening With...' "If I didn't have pages with Charles Dickens' words on them, it would be 'A Performance' and everything would be simple. But I am not letting go of those pages. This event is not a 'Dramatization'. The material is literature, not drama. To those who feel cheated by the lack of sets, costume and props, I can only explain that I am trying to inhabit a kind of 'theatre' midway between what Dickens himself, Emlyn Williams and others have done and The Royal Shakespeare Company's Nicholas Nickleby. This is a potent tale. Its structure is story but its content is undeniably theatrical. The pages in my hand are a symbol of the former, and I, the representative of the latter." The brochure also includes some highlights of Stewart's career (yes, including TNG), and excerpts from glowing reviews--apparently, this won't be the first time he's done this. Ticket prices range from $20-$25, but discounts are available for students (particularly Caltech students :-) ). I'm still shaking from the time I heard him read just ten minutes' worth of _Le Morte D'Arthur_. You can bet I've got my ticket. Tim Lynch (Cornell's first Astronomy B.A.; one of many Caltech grad students) BITNET: tlynch@citjuliet INTERNET: tlynch@juliet.caltech.edu UUCP: ...!ucbvax!tlynch%juliet.caltech.edu@hamlet.caltech.edu Why are there so many songs about rainbows, and what's on the other side? R.I.P. Jim Henson, 1936-1990; we shall never see your like again. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com