February 6th, 2013
‎Oh Madam, do reject such needless fear.
Look with an easier eye on your mistake.
You love. We cannot conquer destiny.
You were drawn on by fatal charm. Is that
something unheard of? Do you think that Love
has triumphed over you, and you alone?
Frailty is only natural to us
poor human beings. You are mortal,so
to a poor mortal’s lot submit. You fight
against a fate imposed since time began.
The Gods themselves, even the Olympian Gods
who with so great a noise reprove our crimes,
have sometimes burned with these forbidden fires.
Phèdre
December 5th, 2012
I’m in love with this play!

I’m in love with this play!

I’m terribly in love with this show. So if anyone is in Chicago for Christmas, I insist you go see it.

March 15th, 2012
Acting or writing or directing in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.
Michael Shurtleff
February 2nd, 2012
The theatre is like the plague. Beneath such a scourge all social forms disintegrate.
Antonin Artaud