Form Learner, Will you do us the honor of settle foring our holiday invitation? Carve 5 minutes out of your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Bugs’ Christmas, above. In addition to supplying temporary respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this simple stop-motion story from 1913 is surprisingly effective at chasing…
Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, poet, and…gritty television detective? Unhappyly, no, however he had the makings of a terrific one, no less than as lower together by playwright Danny Thompson, cofounder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck. Some 35 years after Beckett’s dying, Thompson—whose credits embody the Complete Misplaced Works of Samuel Beckett as…
Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, every generation has discovered ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether or not Orwell had some prophetic imaginative and prescient or was simply a really astute learner of the institutions of his day—all nonetheless with us in mutated kind—hardly matters….