Audiences will have another opportunity to see Vagabond Players’ enchanting production of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) when the play opens the Theatre B.C. Greater Vancouver Zone Festival on Sunday, May 4 at Vancouver’s Metro Theatre. New Westminster audiences raved
Episode Thirty-seven: Still more dog than most.
According to my diaries, the two challenges that dominated the last part of April that year were conquering my 8-track recording system and keeping my naughty dog in line. Max was so unpredictable. One day, he’d be good on our
Agatha Sells!
When it comes to The Arts, familiarity doesn’t breed contempt; it breeds sales. I have first-hand experience of this from my book events. Even though all four of my mystery books have equally good reviews, The Agatha Principle outsells the
Episode 36: Back to School
The Easter break had been great fun, but it was back to school for everyone, including me. Right around this time, Hugh and I decided to get serious about the soundtracks for our marionette shows, so we had gone to
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) opened April 3 at the Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster, where the award-winning play will run until April 19. Audiences at the preview performances raved about this entertaining and engaging production. Exceptionally well-acted and
Episode Thirty-five: Max goes across the line.
We celebrated April Fool’s Day that year by taking our first trip in Lisa. Max had dutifully visited Dr. Zinger for his rabies shot and had behaved politely in spite of getting two needles. We set off at nine-thirty, having
The life and death of Mary Steinhauser
I still remember the extensive headlines and media coverage during the seventies over the shooting of a woman hostage at the old B.C. Penitentiary in New Westminster. However, in all the years I have known my friend, Margaret Franz, I
Episode Thirty-four: Troubles coming in battalions.
Shakespeare definitely had it right when he wrote: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” March, that year, not only came in like a lion, but went out leaving us feeling as if we were facing
Goodnight Desdemona – Playing with the Plays
When, years ago, I sat through my Shakespeare course at UBC, I remember youthfully railing at the annoying twists of fate in Romeo and Juliet. The play, as our textbook described it, was “a succession of unlucky mischances”, and it
Episode Thirty-three: Hell on Paws gets a House on Wheels
Max continued to be a mixture of klutz, disobedient hellion, clever trickster, spoiled brat and independent thinker. He would race through the woods with such abandon that he regularly hit trees and almost knocked himself out. Alternately, he would pick
