Good morning, Corelings! We hope this installment of weekly links keeps you toasty warm today, because the temperature outside is criminal.
- BUCFA is presenting Chekhov’s last full-length play, The Cherry Orchard, Dec. 14 through 18, at the Lane-Comley Studio 210. On the fence about going? There will be a real, live dog in the production.
- Women Playing Hamlet, a play by University of Wyoming playwright-in-residence William Missouri Downs, closed last Saturday. Featuring an all-female cast, the comedy explores an actress’s attempt to discover who she is as she prepares to take up the role of Hamlet in a New York production of the Shakespearean play.
- The New York City AIDS memorial, recently unveiled and soon to be open to the public in West Village, includes a text piece by artist Jenny Holzer piece that utilizes excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. The work commemorates the 100,000 New Yorkers who suffered and lost their lives to AIDS.
The New York City AIDS memorial. (Credit: Max Flatow Photography)
- Jane Austen’s biblocatch is due to be sold at auction by her family in the near future. Her what? Ugh, her cup and ball game, duh. Didn’t you know Austen was a “master of the cup and ball“?
- And, something to lift your spirits during reading period: a Washingtonian journalist goes on a date with a man who claims Machiavelli’s work The Prince is one of the “guiding principles of my life.”
How could you say no to a face like that?
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito.
Best of luck on finals, scholars! We’re sure each and every one of you will do great!
