The King is dead. Long live the King.
I couldn’t help it: I thought of Elvis.
It’s not the first time when reading The Sandman that Elvis came to mind, but it was the most instinctive and in some ways the least appropriate such moment. We’re at the end of the wake for Morpheus and Matthew says to the new Dream, “Just remember what the French say. No, probably not the French, they’ve got a president or something. The Brits, maybe. Or the Swedes. You know the one I mean?” Dream does not. Matthew says, “The King is dead. Long live the King.”
And my free-associating brain did its annoying thing of sending out random names and words: “Elvis!” it screamed into my consciousness.
Not quite a random name, of course. Elvis was, after all, called The King. I don’t really care about Elvis, though.
I couldn’t help it: I thought of Elvis.
It’s not the first time when reading The Sandman that Elvis came to mind, but it was the most instinctive and in some ways the least appropriate such moment. We’re at the end of the wake for Morpheus and Matthew says to the new Dream, “Just remember what the French say. No, probably not the French, they’ve got a president or something. The Brits, maybe. Or the Swedes. You know the one I mean?” Dream does not. Matthew says, “The King is dead. Long live the King.”
And my free-associating brain did its annoying thing of sending out random names and words: “Elvis!” it screamed into my consciousness.
Not quite a random name, of course. Elvis was, after all, called The King. I don’t really care about Elvis, though.
- 7/21/2015
- by Matthew Cheney
- Boomtron
The nominees and special award recipients for the 43rd annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, honoring distinguished achievements in L.A. theater during 2011, were announced on Monday. Ebony Repertory Theatre Company's revival of Lorraine Hansbury's classic drama "A Raisin in the Sun," currently restaged at the Kirk Douglas Theatre with one lead role recast, and the Chance Theater's Southern California premiere of "Jerry Springer: The Opera" both lead the nominations with a total of eight each.Other shows receiving several nominations are the Odyssey Theatre-Evidence Room co-production of Len Jenkin's noir-inspired "Margo Veil" with five, and the zany world premiere tuner "Re-Animator the Musical" with four. Leading production companies were Center Theatre Group, which netted 10 nods, for shows at its Ahmanson and Kirk Douglas Theatres and the Mark Taper Forum. Eight nominations each went to Ebony Repertory Theatre, Chance Theater, and Rogue Machine. Geffen Playhouse received seven.The awards ceremony.
- 1/30/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Les Spindle)
- backstage.com
If you were guessing the locale of a leading regional American theater known for championing new, experimental work, you might first suggest San Francisco, Minneapolis, or Seattle. If someone prompted, "Think Texas," your mind would likely leap to Austin. Unless you were in the know about such things, you wouldn't name the Undermain Theatre, in Dallas."The Undermain is an unsung American treasure, and more people should know about it," says Len Jenkin, the Obie Award–winning, New York–based playwright whose "Port Twilight, or A History of Science" is currently enjoying its world premiere on the Undermain stage. "The Undermain is able to do a really extraordinary thing," Jenkin notes, "in that in a much more conservative town than some others in the United States, they're able to do the most adventurous kind of theater work, to do it really well, to do it imaginatively, and to keep doing it.
- 12/9/2009
- backstage.com
It is night, we are in America, and the time is now. Will Act For Food is following up the success of their production of Frankenstein in Love with Len Jenkin's American Notes: a slightly twisted glimpse into the lives of average, everyday people... who turn out to not be so average after all. Waff Artistic Director and co-founder Corri Feuerstein directs the play and its multifarious miscellany.
- 4/11/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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