The
Great Dickens Christmas Fair Missive
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Dickens Christmas Fair 2010
February Special
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Notes
from your Missive Maven:
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Please remember to contact the folks referenced in each notice, rather
than hitting "reply".
Past missives can be viewed at http://www.cattaylor.com/missives.html
Cat Taylor
Entertainment Director and Missive Maven
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Contra Costa
Civic Theatre: Auditions for Great Expectations
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Peg Healy forwards the following)
Written by: Barbara Field from the novel by Charles Dickens
Audition Dates:
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 7pm
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7pm
Call backs by invitation:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010, as necessary
Performance Dates:
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sunday (matinees) - April 9 to May 2, 2010
Location:
Contra Costa Civic Theatre
951 Pomona Avenue
El Cerrito, CA
Corner of Moeser and Pomona
Directed by: Jeremy Cole
Audition Guidelines:
Please prepare a short monologue (under two minutes) using a British of
Cockney dialect (or both).
We are looking for 13 actors:
6 men, 4 women (ages 18-80)
3 children (2 boys and 1 girl, ages 10-13)
About the Show:
Just
over a dozen actors play over 25 roles in this new adaptation of
Dicken's masterpiece. We follow an orphaned boy named Pip from his
beginnings as a blacksmith's boy, through his encounters with escaped
convict Magwitch, the bizarre Miss Havisham, and her haughty ward
Estella, as he becomes a young gentleman of "great expectations."
Suspence and laughter share the stage in this much-beloved tale of love
and loss.
Non Equity, no pay.
Email us at ccct@ccct.org
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In Memoriam for Kage Baker
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In researching what to include in this missive, I was struck
by the two communities in which Kage Baker was loved and revered and
how much
they didn't know about each other.
Most of the recipients of this email will know her as part
of the dynamic duo, along with Mother Bombey (Kathleen Bartholomew),
who run St.
Alban's Guild and the GreenMan Inn and Public House. St. Alban's
Guild was founded in 1974 at the
Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Agoura (Kathleen was its' first
guildmistress) and
the illustrious Green Man Inn arrived about ten years later. Their inn
became a
home away from home for so many faire folk, a place of camaraderie,
comfort and
mirth.
Some of you also know that Kage was an award-winning science fiction
author of
many books and short stories, including the critically acclaimed
Company Series.
http://www.kagebaker.com/ (peruse
the
amazing bibliography page)
http://www.amazon.com/Kage-Baker/e/B000APVVYE/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1265332587&sr=8-2-ent
She was hugely loved in that community as demonstrated by
the memorial sites that are springing up all over the web.
http://www.sfwa.org/2010/01/rip-kage-baker-1952-2010/
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2010/02/kage-baker-1952-2010.html
Danese Cooper posted this link to one of Kage's last
stories, which was evidently posted a couple of weeks ago:
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter-2010/fiction-the-bohemian-astrobleme-by-kage-baker/
And here's a lovely interview with her from the summer of
2009:
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/interview_baker_2009.html
As to the particulars, this is from Locus Magazine's website:
Writer Kage Baker, 57, died January 31, 2010 of cancer at home in Pismo
Beach,
CA. Baker was best known for her Company series of time travel novels
and
stories. Company novel The Empress of Mars (2008) was an expansion of
the
eponymous 2003 novella, which won a Sturgeon Award and was a Hugo and
Nebula
finalist. Baker also wrote fantasy, notably Mythopoeic finalist The
Anvil of
the World (2003) and World Fantasy Award-nominated sequel The House of
the Stag
(2008). In 1999, she was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New
Writer.
She also published around 70 stories, including Hugo finalist "Son
Observe
the Time" (1999) and World fantasy finalist "Caverns of Mystery"
(2008).
Baker was born June 10, 1952 in Hollywood CA, and spent most
of her life there and in Pismo Beach. From the 1970s onward, she was an
actor,
artist, and director with As You Like It Productions (formerly the
Living
History Center, which started the first Renaissance Faire). She taught
Elizabethan English to stage actors for 20 years and supplemented her
income
writing ad copy, but from the late '90s onward devoted most of her time
to
writing fiction. In 2009, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer, and
underwent
extensive treatment. However, the cancer metastasized to her brain. By
mid-January 2010 doctors ceased treatment, and she died peacefully in
the
company of her family.
See the March issue of Locus for a complete obituary.
Kage and Kathleen at Dickens Fair (photo courtesy Rory Downward)
The Writer at Home (with Harry)
Condolences may be sent to Kathleen Bartholomew at
materkb@gmail.com
or
331 Stimson, Apt. B, Pismo Beach CA 93449.
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For
specific questions
regarding performing at the Fair or to submit a show proposal please
email Cat
Taylor
If your group would like to perform at the Fair for just one day
(school
caroling groups, etc., please email Robert
Young
For specific questions regarding vending at the Fair please email Vendors
For specific questions the beverage department please email Beverage
To learn what you can do to help save the Cow Palace, please visit
http://www.savethecowpalace.com
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