By Carol Schaye The sun shone hot on the beige plain all day. Neither fly nor bug nor snake ventured out on the waste to molest the four horses tethered there, or the colt. … Toward evening the wind came up, and they backed into it and faced the mountains from which they had…
By Carol Schaye Arriving in Carson City, Nevada after a road trip across country, from New York City, I was anxious to see the men on horseback riding the dusty streets. Men who looked like Tom Selleck, the “Marlboro Man.” They were nowhere in sight. Carson City was a small state capital with…
Broadway Production – August Wilson Theatre Review by Carol Schaye An actor takes a risk when accepting a part in a production with Eddie Redmayne. Some of the actors in “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” were able to survive, others didn’t fare so well. Redmayne is a phenomenal actor, who deserves a…
Sinclair Lewis Review By Carol Schaye “The American novelist or poet or dramatist or sculptor or painter must work alone, in confusion, unassisted save by his own integrity.” Sinclair Lewis “But withal, Sinclair Lewis, a genius of unappeasable anger and mirthless derision, wanted urgently to shine his light upon us. Who can say it is…
Chinatown – A Review A review Carol Schaye We have made the land wet where it was dry and dry where it was wet disturbing the natural order of things. Why and how did we do these things? Moving out West from the East Coast, I was late in learning about water wars, manifest destiny,…
A review Carol Schaye No work of fiction has ever stunned me, made me reflect, and horrified me as the novel, “Babbitt”, by Sinclair Lewis. Published in 1922 it was made into films on two different occasions. First a silent film, then a 1934 adaptation of Lewis’s masterpiece. I watched this film with expectation,…
(“Ozark” and “True Detective” Are Missed) Review By Carol Schaye Philipp Meyer Author, “American Rust” Jeff Daniels Chief Del Harris Maura Tierney Grace Poe David Alvarez Isaac English Julia Mayorga Lee English Alex Neustaedter Billy Poe Mark Pellegrino Virgil Poe Rob Yang Officer Steve Park Kyle Beltran Detective Ramon Fisher Emily Davis Sue Herlitz …
By Samuel BecketBrüka Theatre Production directed by Holly NatworaReview by; Carol Schaye Anyone who claims to know or understand exactly what the play, “Waiting for Godot” is about, might have taken too many drugs in the sixties. Samuel Becket’s two act play which was originally produced in New York, on Broadway, April 19. 1956, was…
A REVIEW Carol Schaye “Poor Things” is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. The film stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. It focuses on Bella Baxter, a young woman in Victorian London…
By Carol Schaye *(Full disclosure, this is not a discussion about the Israel versus Hamas War) Living in a federal housing project for poor people in Miami Beach, Florida as a kid, I didn’t know I was poor until I got to High School. Probably because all my friends were poor, none of our fathers…
