Arts And Entertainment
Actors Ensemble Stages ‘Uncle Vanya’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday April 25, 2008
If I’d had a normal life, I could’ve been a Schopenhauer or a Dostoyevsky!” Funny, awkward explosions like that are rare but significant moments in Chekhov’s plays, which—as one spectator at the Actors Ensemble of Berkeley production of Uncle Vanya put it—seem to run on the rhythms of “the comedy of everyday life.”
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John Schott Join’s Moe’s Poetry Reading
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Friday April 25, 2008
Guitarist John Schott will join poet Steve Dickison in an unusual “back and forth, call and response” poetry and music improvisation as part of this coming Monday At Moe’s reading series, 7:30 p.m. at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Ave. Admission is free.
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El Cerrito’s Contra Costa Civic Theatre Stages ‘Foxfire’
By Ken Bullock, Special to The Planet
Tuesday April 22, 2008
What the eye don’t see, the heart don’t grieve.” Foxfire, now onstage at Contra Costa Civic Theatre in El Cerrito, is about the grieving of a vernacular culture for what’s gone, whether it’s seen or not.
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