Bradbury & Vonnegut Conjure Comic Characters Searching for Easy Answers by Mary Lou Herlihy “Absolutely Science Fiction!” offers stories with remarkably prescient predictions about humans looking for easy answers to complex questions. In Ray Bradbury’s and Kurt Vonnegut’s imagined futures, humans look to technology to save them. Both sci-fi writers conjure characters looking for…
Josh Kornbluth Takes No Prisoners, Connecting Private & Public by Robert M. Gardner On Friday, August 15, at The Marsh in Berkeley, we were thrilled to attend a work-in-progress improvisation of Josh Kornbluth’s “What Is To Be Done? Fighting Fascism and Depression.” An eager full house testified that Josh’s latest show already has the…
Shakespeare in the Park Returns, Joyfully & Inclusively, to New York by Andrea Libresco As the performance begins, multiple helicopters fly over the Delacorte Theater. While not a part of the production, the reminder of the creeping police state seems appropriate in this play with an immigrant woman as hero. The production carries us…
Shakespeare’s Sorcery Illuminates Island Power Struggles by Jenyth Jo Prospero, the dethroned Duke of Milan, is a vengeful woman with magic in her hands. She conjures up a wild storm that brings shipwrecked Milanese rulers and sailors to her isolated island. For her plot, she enlists the help of a native “monster” and a…