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Notes on “Private Lives”
Private Lives is written in brilliantly caustic prose. . . Ironically, the play opened only weeks before the crash of 1929 which ended the world it documents.
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Revisiting “Private Lives”
This summer will mark an even dozen productions of Coward plays that I’ve been involved with over my career. Private Lives is perhaps my very favorite play of all. I played Sybil in my very first paid summer stock production, and again in my second show I appeared in here in Houston. I was lucky enough…
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Miss Bennet Reprise a Success!
I’ve just learned that the final weekend is sold out!
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Miss Bennet Thanksgiving!
As many of you know, I’ve been asked by Main Street Theater to remount Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson (our favorite playwright) and Margot Melcon. A huge success last year, we are offering this heart-warming play for the holiday season once again. With most of the same cast and the same brilliant…
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Miss Bennet Reprise
As many of you know, I directed Lauren Gunderson and Margot Mecon’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley last year at Main Street Theater. It was an unequivocal success, despite tepid enthusiasm from the new Houston Chronicle reviewer. We sold out the run and the extension. Such was the response, and the disappointment from some people…
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Mortification
I am seriously mortified, in every sense of the word at the moment.
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Time Flies
Meanwhile, I drift from project to project, semester to semester, production to production, and time disappears without my noticing or adequately preparing for it.
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Theater 2018
This past twelve months has been very exciting, theater-wise.
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No More Shakin’ Goin’ On
“At some point, I will work with many of these women again and we will pick up our friendships where we left them—still dear and with the measure of trust we have earned.”
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Sold Out Opening Night
I met dozens of Gwen’s friends who had traveled from Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and as far away as Delaware and Alaska for the event.
Claire Hart-Palumbo
When words really matter…
Claire Hart-Palumbo 