Major Barbara
I spent the weekend in San Diego, visiting my sister Carolyn. She was playing the title role in Shaw’s play “Major Barbara.” She did an excellent job in a very demanding role.
Interesting, isn’t it, how much we can be moved by the circumstances of fictional characters? I know Carolyn is my sister and that she is only acting, and yet in the final scene before the intermission I found my eyes tearing up at what has happened to Major Barbara, and how she is making an effort not to cry.
Searching, Always Searching
Despite not having fulfilled my pledge to add links to the few theatre blogs I have found to my blogroll, I have gone in search of more theatre blogs tonight. For the most part I was disappointed. Of the blogs…
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