This Issue | Scene4 Magazine May 2017

Euripides, Shakespeare and Stoppard
Adapted Anew

At the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, in Ashland
all the world is truly a stage

Catherine Conway Honig

In Search of Lost Time

Lion
The Sense of an Ending

The story is the best kind of magic realism with details imbued with shards of memory

Miles David Moore

Lost Paradise:
Robert Peter
Tristram Coffin

His remarkable career
included many honors along
with the 1936 Pulitzer Prize

Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold

Escalations
In New York, an unwritten code states that standers on an escalator stand to the right while walkers walk on the left.
Michael Bettencourt

Sleeping Alone
I love to fall asleep with someone. I love to wake in the morning with someone. But, now, how long can I sleep with someone? Days, months, years?
Arthur Meiselman

A Perfectly Innocent Attack
How am I any different than a hen? Scratching & clucking, dropping orders of magnitude more eggs than offspring.
Claudine Jones

It Can Happen
Like several hundred other souls, a new adaptation of It Can’t Happen Here, showed up in my email last fall.
Nathan Thomas

Why Hebrew Can’t Speak Yiddish
Hebrew does not easily smile; it is austere in its undeviating regularity. Yiddish talks with its hands.
Kim Chernin

Jackie Robinson and the Question of “Why?”
It was seeing how well Jackie played, the horrible abuse he endured day after day, and how he wouldn’t be intimidated.
Patrick Walsh

Ode To A Friend
Kenny Sibbett had the ability to meld humor
that endeared him not only to me but many other fans.
Les Marcott

Reality Dustup

Now all of this leads to this koan
to arrive at the bigger truth,
storytellers lie.

Karren LaLonde Alenier

The Steiny Road To Operadom | Karren LaLonde Alenier | Scene4 Magazine | www.scene4.com

Small Acts of Concern | Kim Chernin | Scene4 Magazine -May 2017 www.scene4.com

Small Acts of Concern

I am trying to find out something about the state of mind in which it is possible to act politically.
I do not have this state of mind, but I would like to have it.

Kim Chernin

Arts of Thailand
Watana Kreetong

An award-winning
artist who asks:
What is art containing
the story of thought?

Janine Yasovant
คลิกเพื่ออ่านบทความนี้ เป็นภาษาไทย

Colors of the Roundtable: Episode 7-Part V | David Wiley | Scene4 Magazine | May 2017 | www.scene4.com

Episode 7:
Visions Of Paradise - Part V

To find the right ideas to translate, the ones that would imbue Paradise on Earth with the power to make people ‘see the light,’ and save themselves and their planet.

David Wiley

Old Fart Village

High Noon
on the
Golf Cart Path

Elliot Feldman

To The Thunderbird

Carried me into womanhood
To the beach with my friends
To the unexplored city

Griselda Steiner

Hotel Violet

“Wasn’t this the life everyone wanted?”
Fourth excerpt from
Kiss Me Again, Paris
a memoir by
Renate Stendhal

Half ‘n Half

Rule of thirds be damned - it's great to break the rules, and occasionally I like to split things right through the middle.

The Photography of
Jon Rendell

Anthropophagus Hornyfooted Goatsbeard
~
The Language of Color

The Art of
David Wiley


	Undress Me Michael Bettencourt In a bar, Laura turns to Stefan and asks him to undress her by word of mouth, in his best mother tongue.


	The Greed Gene Michael Bettencourt A young couple is told by their genetic counselor, the "genie of genes" that their child has the greed gene, and there is nothing they can do.

Scene4 Magazine: Perspectives - Audio | Theatre Thoughts | Michael Bettencourt April 2016 | www.scene4.com


	THEATRE THOUGHTS


	An astute and entertaining array of audio essays on an array of topics by an astute and entertaining essayist.


Letters to the Editor Recent Letters

Qreviews Long & short reviews of theatre, film and more

Que Pasa Notices, announcements and coming attractions


	Karren LaLonde Alenier The Dresser addresses what’s underneath the art

	Miles David Moore Thoughts and observations from, to, for or against


		Arthur Meiselman Nightdances

	Les Marcott Dr. Barnabus T. Bynum's Travelling Minstrel Show


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