Charlotte Brontë by Jane Austen

A new review for The Art of Memory (check these previous posts) appears in The Village Voice:

In Tanya Calamoneri's exhilarating dance-theater piece Art of Memory, three eccentric librarians in frilly Victorian-style dresses find themselves trapped in a cavernous library, searching for a way out. With graceful, fluid movements inspired by Japanese butoh, the women frolic on Sean Breault's imaginative set, where books are suspended in the air and stacked in dangerously teetering heaps. From the Brontë sisters to Jorge Luis Borges, Calamoneri skillfully manages to turn her many influences into a cohesive and entertaining 50 minutes. (Angela Ashman)

The Times-Picayune devotes an article to the many Austen-related books appearing this summer. One of them: Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter (Ballantine Books) has caught our attention:

As our story progresses, Jane finds herself caught between Mr. Darcy, naturally, and a journalist named Spike. She notices, too, that her Jane Austen novels all have blank pages where the endings should be. Hmmmm. Will she make the right choice, ensuring that the fictional Austen universe remains intact? Just remember: Jane's a bookseller and her parents gave her a name to reckon with, "Emily Bronte Hemingway Albright" -- there are worlds of possibilities in such a name. (Susan Larson)

Indeed. Maybe this kind of tributes can confuse some people. This post on Sailinghome confirms it:

Apparently the following are quotes from real TV/Radio Quiz Shows... I despair, I really do.... (...)
BLIND DATE (ITV)
Girl: Name a book written by Jane Austen.
Boy: Charlotte Bronte.

The Mystery of Irma Vep is performed in Durban, South-Africa:

The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam is a “Penny Dreadful” campy melodrama tribute to Gothic horror films, to be staged by Durban’s KickstArt Company which comes to the Chris Seabrookes Theatre at DHS from 21 August until 6 September before heading off to the Hilton Arts Festival from 14 – 16 September.

And now for some humour, if that quiz show answer wasn't enough for you. Stuff on a gossip column, tries to be funny... but fails miserably:

Elsewhere, competing Kiwi newsreaders Simon Dallow (TVNZ) and Alison Mau (Prime) star on Woman's Weekly's front cover. The married pair celebrated 10 years together with a romantic child-free getaway on a luxury Fijian island. (...)

"There were plenty of opportunities for bush walking and sea kayaking ... and we took none of them," Mau says. "There was lots of laughing, swimming and champagne - and I even managed to re-read Wuthering Heights."

Crikey. No wonder they're so boring. Even John Campbell would have spiced that holiday up. (Chris Schulz)

But this YouTube clip of Wuthering Heights 1996 with Little Danny Osmond's I'll be your long-haired lover from Liverpool is one of the funniest things we have seen recently. Courtesy of MissionVerdopolitian.

Categories: Dance, Humour, References