An article about the tricky business of cast members dating one another (aka “showmances”); the complications that arise and the affect they have on a production.
*[2021 Update: If the original link (below) no longer works, the entire piece is available in the attached screenshot.]
“I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, The Saturday Evening Post (29 May 1920)
I have no problem saying “MacBeth” in a theatre. I never have. I’ve done it in nearly every theatre I’ve performed. It’s just a name, and there’s no sense in fearing a name. It’s also the title of a play and I’ll be damned if I’m scared to say the title of a play – in a theatre, no less! But where I lack a sense of terror of the spoken word, I try to make up for it in a certain level of social grace. Though I have no problem saying it, I recognise that others feel differently. And given that those people are my collaborators, and…
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The Thinking Man's Idiot (Charles Lewis III) 
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