Heather!
Here's hoping you are sucking on some Bloody Mary's in good old down home Transylvania! I'll give some random stranger a bite on the neck in honor of your birthday greetings!
Love, Terry
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Terry,
Sending you wishes (appropriately) from Brasov in Transylvania. Hope you have a fabulous day!
Heather Dolstra
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Tomorrow is St Galloween’s Day! Happy Birthday Terry!
Love,
Doc
Jim (Doc) AyresProfessor Emeritus, The University of TexasFounding Director, Shakespeare at Winedale and Camp ShakespeareDirector of Mission, Camp Shakespeare
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Be vigitant, I beseech you!
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Robert's wife Barbara Chisholm Faires and his daughter Rosalind hosted a
surprise toast for Robert this evening at the Vortex Theatre in Austin, and
Robert was genuinely surprised and delighted. Robert is leaving his
position as the Arts Editor for The Austin Chronicle after 35 years! You
really cannot overstate his contribution to the Austin Arts community in
those years. His -30- column will run on Thursday in the Chronicle. I'm
looking forward to it and will post here.
So proud that we share Robert in this Winedale community and grateful for
the ways he has used his platform to highlight Shakespeare at Winedale over
the years.
I'm really looking forward to reading what's next from you, Robert. Cheers
and congratulations!
Madge
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*Madge Darlington*
mmdarlington(a)gmail.com
(512) 627-6038
Dear folks,
You know how it is when you encounter something that brings to mind words
you learned and uttered in the Barn so many years ago. This poem published
just recently in The New Yorker reminded me quite a bit of Duke Senior's
meditative/inspirational speech in Act II of "As You Like It."
“Theodicy” by Nick Laird
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/theodicy?utm_source=twitter&u…
via @NewYorker
(This link may work better to get access to the link of Laird reading his
poem, which I recommend as much as the poem itself.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/theodicy )
Love,
Mike
P.S. Sienghom and I are driving cross country from DC to Oakland starting
on Saturday. We'll be in contact, but wish us luck!
I think maybe most of us have seen this, probably more than one time. But
it became available for free on YouTube earlier this year.
I came across this just today, though, and I was suddenly hurled back in
time to when I saw it in high school (broadcast on PBS), and what a
transformative, riveting experience it was for me.
Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/EXDz6QSTrKM
Mike
Gentles All,
When we started the HornRaiser for Camp Shakespeare, we were advised to
keep our expectations modest for our first outing, but thanks to the
full-throated response and astonishing generosity of so many—thank you
thank you thank you ALL!!—we have shown our friends in UT’s Development
Office that we are a force to be reckoned with. Now, in the final stretch
on our twice-stretched HornRaiser goal, *WE HAVE 2 DAYS* to close the
narrow gap between where we are today--$41,975--and our target of $45,000.
Just $3025 to go!
We are aiming for the largest number of individual donors possible as an
expression of our entire Winedale community’s support for Camp Shakespeare,
Robin, and Doc. To the 110 friends and family who have given so far, “a
thousand thanks”! For anyone who hasn’t made a contribution yet, we welcome
gifts in any amount, including $5 and $10 and $20. Climb on this virtual
bus to Round Top and join the party!
Here is the HornRaiser link! <https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/26117>
Other exciting news: Below is the link to the film version of the
performance of *Much Ado About Nothing *from the first session of Camp
Shakespeare. As you will see, the students’ incredibly hard work resulted
in a joyful and moving affirmation of love and community.
Much Ado About Nothing
https://youtu.be/eQmd8_VsQwA
Camp Shakespeare at Winedale YouTube Page
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7-rnLtligFXuL51jCsSxQ
Enjoy!
Maggie Megaw, Mary Collins, & Madge Darlington
Gentles All,
We have concluded the first week of our four-week HornRaiser crowd-funding
campaign to benefit Camp Shakespeare, and in just 10 days 89 donors have
helped us raise $32,374 or 215% of our original goal! Before any other
message, THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed in any amount. We are
watching the tallies of both dollars and donors, and are deeply gratified
by the tidal flood of support. If you have been following this wild ride,
you know that we hit our initial goal of $15,000 on Wednesday June 9 in
just 11.5 hours, hit our first stretch goal of $30,000 in just one more
day, and are working our way toward our second stretch goal of $45,000. Our
hope for the stretch goals is to give Doc and Robin the freedom to think
big about next summer, knowing that a solid financial foundation is already
in place.
We are looking to raise about $12,500 more in the next 20 days ($12,626 to
be specific!). Will you help us keep up our momentum by making a gift if
you haven’t already? This project is very important to our group of
Ambassadors and to so many of you reading this letter.
This is a chance to tell Doc and Robin how much we love them and honor the
work they have devoted themselves to.
Here is the link!
<https://gmail.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5df14a5a12c871dfa6025d72c&i…>
Let
your ducats flow like the sea! Give as generously as you can!
We are so grateful for every gift. Thank you for your support!
All the best,
Maggie Megaw, Mary Collins, & Madge Darlington
Dear Winedalians,
This morning we are launching a* Camp Shakespeare HornRaiser!
<https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/26117>* (think Kickstarter, but run
by UT and 100% of the money raised goes to Camp Shakespeare).
We joyfully invite you to show Doc your love and your support for the
program that is the culmination of his life’s work, Camp Shakespeare! Join
us in raising money for this summer’s virtual 2021 Camp performances of *Much
Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. *Please note that this undertaking
will happen fast! We have until July 9 to meet (or surpass!) our goal of
$15,000.
You remember the thrill of being at Winedale, of being challenged to play
out your ideas and discoveries on stage. You remember how being at Winedale
provided lifelong friendships and a heartfelt relationship to the
transcendent work of William Shakespeare.
After thirty years giving that experience to classes of University
students, Doc has devoted the past *twenty-one years* to providing it to
young people, 11-16, inspiring them to reach inside themselves and outside
to others in exploration and play, study and hard work.
These are great gifts. You know this! Let's thank Doc. Let's acknowledge
the role played by Robin Grace Soto as Camp Director. Let's show our
appreciation to the kids who, in spite of the pandemic, have met weekly
with Doc and Robin to read plays and memorize lines and who remained
committed to Camp although attending in person was impossible this summer.
*Let’s deluge Doc, Robin and the Campers with love and hard cash!!*
*Thank you!*
*Madge, Maggie and Mary*
There is so much to celebrate today! In addition to a rip-roaring start to
Camp Shakespeare's HornRaiser <https://hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/26117>
*and* the news that Shakespeare at Winedale will be able to field a class
for the summer, Terry and her Mickee Faust club got a nice shout out in
a monthly column I contribute to for *American Theatre Magazine. *Please
check it out:
https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/06/07/this-pride-month-in-theatre-hist…
(Please ignore some typos you'll find. I've let the editor know about them.)
BTW, Terry is one of the Ambassadors for Camp Shakespeare and is currently
sharing the lead with Maggie Megaw for the number of people who have made a
contribution. So double yay for Terry today.
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*Madge Darlington*
mmdarlington(a)gmail.com
(512) 627-6038
For those of you who knew Rob, this is the eulogy given by his longtime
friend Randy McCommons at a gathering held in his honor last week.
Captures him beautifully.
If Rob Was Here
A Eulogy Given Saturday May 29, 2021 for My Dear Friend Rob Lallier
If Rob was here he would be MCing this memorial.
He would have greeted each of us heartily with a personalized moniker or
reflection then he’d smoothly introduce you to someone in the room you
didn’t know and, before you know it, he would disappear, moving on to his
next matchmaking soirée.
If Rob was here he would regale us with a story about the deceased as if it
wasn’t him...some adventure he had had...maybe the one on the Pedernales
River or the one about Shakespeare at Winedale.
If Rob was here he’d give a literary review of the last book he’d read and
give a minimum of five recommendations for you to read.
In private he would ask for your opinion of his date and talk of his
struggles to maintain a relationship but with a sly wink he would hint
about the incredible sex he was having for a guy his age. Sorry you had to
hear that Keely (Rob’s daughter).
If Rob was here he’d point to something imaginary on your shirt and then
flick your nose when you looked then he’d slip outside for a smoke...of
something...and start up a conversation about his not being dead which
would quickly turn into a professorial lecture and then possibly an
argument. It would be challenging to disagree with him, as it always was,
but somehow our dead friend would convince you that he was alive or
ironically that there was life after death...which for an atheist, as he
was, is quite an accomplishment.
If Rob was here he would brag about his daughter...her work and her
betrothal to a fine young man which filled him with so much happiness.
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These were added by others at the Memorial:
If Rob was here he would suggest we cook an elaborate meal after the
memorial...from scratch.
If Rob was here the food would be fabulous.
If Rob was here we’d play poker and all the cards would be wild except one.
If Rob was here I would hug him until he became uncomfortable and still
hold on. I would leave him some pot under the porch mat, make him laugh,
and tell him that I love him.
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If Rob was here he’d point to something imaginary on my shirt and then
flick my nose when I looked. Got me again...damn it!
If Rob was here he’d talk about his community college students...something
about the numbing challenge of cracking their hardened shells...a Sisyphean
challenge that although he complained about it, he clearly loved it and
would throw himself into it over and over again.
But Rob isn’t here. We are here. Actually all I can say is that I am
somewhat here, somewhat in some other place of memory, and somewhat in a
place in the future contemplating death.
I can say that he was here and we were here together and I for one am
better for having been here with him...despite his incessant Rob-ness.
If Rob was here I’d pull him aside and ask him to help me write the ending
of this eulogy. He’d quibble with that word suggesting three alternatives.
Randy McCommons
May 29, 2021
Hi all, I just won a Pushcart Prize (it'll be in next year's anthology) for
a story of mine called "Mark on the Cross," published in The Sun last year
called! I'm in Maine too, on a glorious day, so I'm very happy on both
counts.
Maria
Maria Black
Lenox, MA 01240
(413) 329-8255
www.mariablackwriting.com