By Ernest Kearney — "Lysistrata," the 411 BCE “anti-war,” “feminist” play by ancient Greece’s, King of Comedy, Aristophanes has endured many, many efforts at adaptation over the centuries. The recent re-workings are impressive by the extent of their diversity
By Ernest Kearney — If 'The Seven Step Process' by Lee Wochner is the last Zoom-play I sit through, it will be nice to say I went out on a high point.
"If you want to live, come with me – and keep in harmony" Yes, I troll Netflix, the cable channels, and DVDs. I am like the cinema version of Dostoyevsky's "Underground Man," in the sense that I avoid the bright boulevards of major studio releases and hunt
By Ernest Kearney — A friend poised a question to me. She had encountered, in a brief stretch of time, three people who launched into tirades in which they rained abuse down the generation known as the Baby Boomers, individuals born between 1946 and 1964. My
By Ernest Kearney — First of all, I don’t expect you to read this letter. Truthfully, I don’t expect you’ll ever be aware it was written. After all, this isn’t Yahoo! News or Huffington Post or CNN. It isn’t even Cracked.com. But I’m going to
By Ernest Kearney — What is often forgotten or overlooked — especially in our culture so devoted to the immediate and momentary sensorial impact typically found within the remoteness offered by our social media or cell phones — is that the theatre, the Queen of
By Ernest Kearney — The Star-Spangled Banner has had a rather checkered history. As most readers will remember from high school history classes – that is if they stayed awake – the lyrics of our national anthem were based on a poem,
Ernest Kearney — I love it when I’m describing a film to someone and I see that pallid perturbed look of perplexity slowly pervade their faces as they begin to suspect that I’m just screwing with them, that I’m concocting a ludicrous, “movie” simply to
by Ernest Kearney — Everyone should read Montaigne;* though he wrote nearly 500 years ago, there is hardly a writer today who speaks with such relevance for the modern soul. Some of Montaigne’s most significant writing was on the nature of “friendship.”
By Ernest Kearney — Concerning these theatre-faux video productions that have been dealt out to sate the “jonesing” of the culturally attuned, the progression has unfolded pretty much as one would expect. From “Dreadful” to “Okay, not frigging bad” to “Dang! They’re getting the hang
