FIRST DAY OF SPRING BREAK!
Read this past week:
Raisin in the Sun and Tea and Sympathy for class. Felt transgressive assigning T&S--not a play on anybody's radar anymore. Students responded strongly to it. I love when they love old chestnuts like that. Makes you forget they're chestnuts.
Re-read hunks of Mansfield Park and am having the delightful experience of sitting in on an English class devoted to Austen.
For work: did quite a bit of reading about some directors my students are currently studying--Wilson, Bogart, Suzuki--and also about cross-racial casting. Lots of fun stuff.
Watched: Long Day's Journey Into Night for the kabillionth time. Dean Stockwell ran away with it this time, for my money.
Watched: a couple more episodes of Nero Wolfe Mystery, a couple episodes of Psych, an episode of Lost. Too much TV!
Listened to Please Pass the Guilt, kind of a lesser, weird, late Wolfe--somewhat interesting, though, for throwing Fred, Orrie, and Sal into the mix in a more concerted way. I have been slightly spoiled about the final (Stout) Wolfe book, and I believe this one is moving them into position for that.
Theatre: a student's musical theatre piece consisting of an original book and borrowed songs. Not brilliant but good-spirited and with a couple of appealing performances. Also watched a handful of auditions for a student's senior project, which is a solid and sometimes beautiful play about the pirate Grace O'Malley.
I have a cool job.
"What fools we were, poised there above our books for a silence that would never come."
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Isn't Mansfield Park cool? It's so often overlooked in favor of Jane's spritelier works, but it's actually my favorite of the canon....
I haven't dared say that, Mr. Mead, but it might be my favorite, too. Some mesmerizing characters, a couple of jaw-dropping twists, and theatre! (I kept thinking "Jane really knows her theatre in a sly, insider-ish way!")
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