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Much Ado About Nothing, under the stars
Or: The Catamaran and the Noble Ape Much Ado About Nothing is, as this old curmudgeons holds it, a harder play to wrangle than most...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20234 min read
An Evening With Garrison Keillor
Or: The Secret of Persistent Kindness. Garrison Keillor, the Bard of Woebegone and the Face of Radio owes Boise one good story. As he...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20235 min read
Kingdom
Or: The Gospel According to Stephen Fry I want to be Stephan Fry when I grow up. Actor, author, erudite traveler, erudite educator,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20234 min read
Kahbi alvida Naa Kehma (Never say Goodbye)
Or: Goodbye cannot come soon enough. I'd go into detail at explaining why this all star film of a good family turned out so poorly....
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20231 min read
Josh Whedon’s Much ado about Nothing
Or: “Everybody’s talkin’ bout the new sound, funny, but its still ‘Much Ado’ to me.” The more I see of Josh Whedon's art the higher it...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20234 min read
Films to Avoid: Seven Psychopaths and Cheeni Kim
Films to Avoid: A double header Seven Psychopaths. Martin McDonagh, the irish dramatist/filmmaker well known for stories of both Gruesome...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
Before Midnight
Or: At the Talkies It’s rather disconcerting to come in at the middle of a saga. The third chapter of a low banked but glowing modern...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20232 min read
English Vinglish
Or: Anne Elliot, in a Sari, speaking English and taking names While watching English Vinglish, in between chewing my knuckles in anxiety...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
Blithe Spirit at ISM
Or: British Drawing Room Comedy collides with Mid-Afterlife Crisis at Full Throttle. This year’s ISF season promises to be dark and...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20234 min read
Griffin’s Tale
Now, dear reader, as I have told you many times before and will, all being well, tell you many times to come, I am a curmudgeon of the...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
Kon-tiki
Or: A Series of Unfortunate Events... with beards! A celebration of Thor Heyerdahl and his remarkable journey, Kon-tiki is more...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
Double Header: MUD and Now you See Me
Mud Mud’s crown is it’s visual storytelling, nearly stringing the viewer along from image to image, setting up this peril, then letting...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20235 min read
Found: A New Musical
Or: Scraps of Glory By Hunter Bell, Lee Overtree and Eli Bolin It is customary for us to live our lives in isolation. We connect with...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20235 min read
Qfest: a queer theater festival mini review
Or: The odd, the peculiar and the probeing. I hope to live in a world where all sorts of love can be batted about both in public...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20232 min read
Pericles
Or The Games of Gods, now color coordinated for your connivence. Two words of advice before seeing the the Aaron Snook’s adaptation of...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
It was the Nightingale: Persephone’s Play
Or: Our Myths, Ourselves. By Anna Miles In the highest room of the tallest tower (more specifically, Garret Seminary) a girl waits,...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20234 min read
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Or: The wrath of Cumberbatch I must confess that while I greatly enjoyed Into Darkness, as a dark and edgy romp through time and space, I...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20232 min read
Keep Our Kids
Or: The View from the Bridge. By Danielle Littman How do you live your life? What mantra pumps with your pulse and blinks with the...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20233 min read
Helix
Or: Sophocles meets Sam Hunter By Hillary Flynn We all keep secrets. From our parents, our peers, our friends, our authorities. Sometimes...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20235 min read
The Matter of Nadiyah Hassan
Or: Amazing Grace By Emily Acker All of humanity is fragmented. We dream and speak of a world where all can coexist in harmony, but the...
Ben Kemper
May 8, 20235 min read
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