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Further Thoughts on Paul Scofield
In the recent flurry of notable deaths – including film director Anthony Minghella, Chiara Lubich, who founded the lay ecclesial movement, Focolare, and novelist Jon Hassler—I, like Greg Wolfe, took special note of the passing of actor Paul Scofield. Years ago, I did time on the stage, first in school and then in an amateur acting company. I knew a little of Scofield’s reputation in the theater....
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Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
When a production of a classic play gets reported by Yahoo News, NPR, The New York Times, and the Seattle Times (off the AP wire), you know something powerful is going on. And so it was with the Classical Theater of Harlem’s performance of Waiting for Godot in New Orleans last November.
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An Actor for All Seasons
Other bloggers here at Good Letters seem to be establishing various narrative arcs—about music, fiction, etc. Well, it seems that I’m specializing in obituaries, this being my third in a row. Perhaps it’s my age, but in recent weeks I’ve felt the loss of several greats. Today I celebrate the great British actor, Paul Scofield, who passed away at age 86 a few days ago....
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Good Art, Good Grief, Part 2
“Calvin says somewhere that each of us is an actor on a stage and God is the audience. That metaphor has always interested me, because it makes us artists of our own behavior, and the reaction of God to us might be thought of as aesthetic rather than morally judgmental in the ordinary sense.” —Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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