Ancestor Animation, part 1: Inevitable
William and Lizzie were destined to meet.
Author: Anne
Did You Know? Minnie Maddern Fiske, actor and activist
"An overwhelming rebuke to the flippant scoffers who are ignorant of the ever-increasing power of the great theater iconoclast.”
Did You Know? The first woman in Shakespeare
"Forasmuch as many plays formerly acted do conteine severall prophane, obscene and scurrilous passages, and the women’s parts therein have been acted by men in the habit of women, at which some have taken offense, we doe likewise permit and give leave that all the women’s parts may be performed by women." Now THAT's what I call a patent!
Did You Know? Kabuki was invented by a woman
In 1603, Okuni made her great innovation, appearing in drag as a kabuki-mono, in a comedy sketch where she flirted with a woman played by a man in drag.
Did You Know? The women of commedia dell’arte
In Mantua, Italy, in the 1560s, actor/managers Flaminia and Vincenza ran rival companies attracting passionately devoted fans. Then they got that invitation from the Duke.
Did You Know? Yuan Dynasty Actors
In Yuan Dynasty China (1271-1368), women frequently appeared onstage – in fact, it’s likely that most Yuan Dynasty actors were women.
Did You Know? Hrotsvitha
The first known playwright in Christian Europe was Hrotsvitha, a tenth-century German nun.
DefibRillator at the Fringe
For the first time in years, I'm involved in a show for the Minnesota Fringe.
“A Journal of the Plague Years” in Mankato
The cross-stitch picture I submitted to the Textile Center members’ show was picked to travel to the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato. The Carnegie is a visual arts space lovingly adapted from a turn-of-the-twentieth-century Carnegie library. It was a thrill to have my picture hanging with other work I admire. (Mine is at the far...
A Common Thread
I have an embroidered picture in Textile Center's member exhibition this year.