LENOX â Very little is conventional about Emma Woodhouse, the eponymous would-be matchmaker heroine of Jane Austen s fourth novel; the last to be published in her lifetime.
Before she began writing Emma, Austen famously described her as a heroine no one but myself will much like.
Austen was wrong. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen s more popular characters. Emma has been adapted for the movies â eight times; and multiple times on television, the stage, YouTube. Now, it s playwright Kate Hamill s turn.
Hamill s Emma, a new play-in-development, will be presented by Shakespeare & Company in a free virtual costumed staged reading this weekend and next. The performance can be accessed at 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and again Jan. 2 and 3 through the Shakespeare & Company website â shakespeare.org.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
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A Year Of Film
Tom Sampson, Adam Goriparthi, Sharon Hsieh and Cora-Laine Moynihan
As 2020 draws to a close, a selection of our writers have teamed up to review some of the biggest film releases of the year.
Birds of Prey (Tom Sampson):
Birds of Prey was always going to be an odd film, existing post-mortem of the DC film universe where they have now decided to opt for more individual film experiences. Shazam worked really well with this, but
Birds of Prey was existing with a pre-established Harley Quinn from the (abysmal)
Suicide Squad film.
The original title of the film was meant to be
Entertainment by Leigh Paatsch
Premium Content 2020 was a year in movie history like no other. Cinemas went dark for extended periods. Streaming services went through the roof. And yet, the big hits and big misses kept coming as they always do. LEIGH PAATSCH nominates his best and worst of what hit our screens in 2020.
1. 1917 The best film of 2020 arrived early in January, and would not be budged from our collective memory. A simple tale of two young WWI soldiers setting off to deliver a single message that will save 1600 lives became a nerve-shredding, mind-bending masterclass in filmmaking: strikingly composed as one extended, seamless camera shot.
December 25, 2020
The Rev. Carmen D’Amico stood before his congregation in Muse, a former coal town in western Pennsylvania, and talked about not giving into despair and darkness.
“Being in a pandemic doesn’t mean you stop doing what is good,” he told the members of Holy Rosary Catholic Church on a recent rainy Sunday morning, all wearing masks and sitting in every third pew to keep safe distance. “If you know someone is alone, call them up. Reach out to them. Do you have elderly neighbors who need their leaves raked? Do it. Don’t wait for anyone to ask you.”