Neal Tucker
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- Mar 29, 12
I’m excited to announce that I will be acting at The Lost Colony theatre this summer, located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in their outdoor main stage show directed by Robert Richmond. I will be an actor/technician playing Sir Arthur Barlowe and John Cage, and I will be understudying the role of Simon Fernando. I can’t wait to get started. Check out their website for more details and ticketing information.
- Mar 13, 12
Very exciting news. I will be playing Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at Theatre South Carolina, directed by Mary Tilden. The show will run April 19 – 22, 2012, in the Lab Theatre. For more information, please go here.
- Dec 07, 11
More good news! I will be playing Stanton Case in Arthur Miller’s play Broken Glass at USC, directed by Lauren Koch. The show will run March 29 – April 1, 2012, in the Lab Theatre. For more information, please go here.
- Dec 06, 11
I’m excited to announce that I will be assistant-directing Shakespeare’s Macbeth with Robert Richmond, who recently directed Othello at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The play will be produced on the main stage at Theatre South Carolina (USC), April 14 – 22, 2012. Showtimes and ticketing information can be viewed here.
- Dec 05, 11
I will be assistant-directing an original work at the USC Lab Theatre, written and directed by Jake Mesches. The show runs February 21 – 26, 2012, along with two other original works, The History of Queen Elizabeth I written and directed by Jeffrey Earl and an original commedia dell’arte piece created and directed by Brittany Price Anderson.
I hope you’ll come out and see the shows. It’s going to be a very exciting week of theatre.
Click here for more details on the shows, directions to the theatre, and purchasing tickets.
- Nov 18, 11
I’m proud to announce that my original work entitled Aviatrix will be produced by Greenroom Productions at Grindhouse, their annual night of short original works. The plays will run at USC’s Benson Theatre, December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, at 8pm, directed by myself and Ait Fetterolf. This is the first of my plays to be produced. I’m very excited, and I hope you’ll come out and enjoy a great night of short plays.
- Aug 25, 11
I am proud to make my dramaturgy debut as the Production Dramaturg for A Streetcar Named Desire at Theatre South Carolina, directed by Chris Clavelli. The show runs September 30 – October 8 in Drayton Hall. For more information, check out the USC Theatre website here.
- Jun 03, 11
I am currently directing and acting in Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell, which will run the weekend of July 7-10 alongside True West, during Sam Shepard Weekend, the debut of Black Square Productions, co-founded by Joey White and myself.
The plays will run at Benson Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The God of Hell will run July 7th and 9th, while True West will run the 8th and 10th.
The cast of The God of Hell includes Don Russell, Mary Tilden, Joey White, and myself.
If you have any questions about the show or would like to help out with the production, please contact me here.
- Mar 30, 11
Currently, I am the Assistant Director for Dead Man’s Cell Phone with director Amy Boyce Holtcamp, running in the University of South Carolina’s Lab Theatre from April 20th through the 23rd. If you’re in town Easter weekend, come out and see the show! Click the image above for more details.
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- Try to type hotspot. Got histoplasmosis. Thank you, autocorrect, for teaching me a new word. #birdpoop http://t.co/xtq3EC0v
- The Lost Colony @ the Lost Colony and Elizabethan Gardens http://t.co/R36NEcbj
- The Sound @ Morrison Grove http://t.co/wfKLMgG5
- Just bought some strawberries that were literally picked this afternoon. That is awesome. And they taste fantastic. @hanestute
- On our way to Colony. Just passed into NC. Now it's only like three days til we get there. #fb
- Loading up the car. #LostColony2012
- New Google+ iPhone app design looks nice. I still won't use it. But it looks nice. http://t.co/F1vIz7Ca
- Bout time. RT @VanityFair: Obama Weds Himself (!) to the Position of Supporting Same-Sex Marriage http://t.co/0ieX9re6
- Filling out my profile on the Japanese Instagram. There are only six sections, and this is one of them. http://t.co/RGW6KNJJ
- Photo: RIP Maurice Sendak http://t.co/DOTZNCrq
- The 20 Greatest Maurice Sendak Quotes http://t.co/yeCLxJeC #fb
- MT @The_Rumpus: “I refuse to lie to children.” - Maurice Sendak.
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Consciousness is harnessed to flesh. But, then again, perhaps it isn’t: language—which can capture and embody consciousness—lives on, and has its own fleshiness. As Sontag’s hero, Roland Barthes, once wrote, ‘Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.’
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out. …
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.Anne LamottIt’s only by living with the problem day in and day out that allows you to accumulate the bits and pieces that you’ll ultimately need to find a solution. Only after repeatedly soaking in the problem will you have enough insight to be able to solve it. … All you can do is swim in the problem until your subconscious finally joins the disparate pieces together and forges a solution.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. This is exactly what I’ve been wanting OS X to become, and more: the integration of the iOS apps directly into the Mac. I’m literally salivating over this right now. Aaaannddd… You can download the Beta version of Messages. RIGHT. NOW. Which I am currently doing.
This article does a good job at (quickly and briefly) revealing the inadequacies of grand judgments based on neuroscience (also called neurobabble, or neurotrash by some). Neuroscience is fascinating stuff, but its claims are often so far-reaching as to give pause to anyone taking them seriously.
“The fact is, of course, that anything at all which we experience, whether it does or does not have causal determinants in the outside world, has to be experienced through our brains. Which means that you will find neural correlates for literally everything that human beings do or think. Because that’s what the brain is for: to do stuff and think about stuff.”
Regardless of how you feel about animal rights, this article shows just how much power companies like McDonald’s and WalMart have in setting industry standards. And not just for animal welfare: companies like this can effectively change de facto health and wage standards with the push of a button. Pretty fascinating. And a little scary.
Movie Trailer of the Day: Well that didn’t take long: The first official teaser trailer for Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has been released, only a day after the first footage surfaced online.
The film, which stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie, Alan Tudyk, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Jimmi Simpson, and Benjamin Walker as Honest Abe, is set to open in theaters June 22nd.
“Are you a patriot or a vampire?” I cannot wait to see this.
You know that book review I posted the other day from the Times regarding Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman? No? Well here it is. But regardless of whether you got a chance to read it, here’s something even better. A TED talk from Dr. Kahneman himself. Check it out if you get a chance. Interesting thoughts on memory, the self, and some odd statistical findings. TED talks. Always fun.
“In this work, Spinoza approaches the issue of individual liberty from several perspectives. To begin with, there is the question of belief, and especially the state’s tolerance of the beliefs of its citizens. Spinoza argues that all individuals are to be absolutely free and unimpeded in their beliefs, by right and in fact. ‘It is impossible for the mind to be completely under another’s control; for no one is able to transfer to another his natural right or faculty to reason freely and to form his own judgment on any matters whatsoever, nor can he be compelled to do so.’”
A short article on a couple of video games with more than entertainment value. (Yes. Zelda is one of them.)
I certainly don’t agree with all of this, but I’m recommending you read it anyway. If the book is accurate, this is really because the end of the review was more positive than negative, and my immediate remembrance of it colors my remembered experience strongly enough to suggest that you read it too. In fact, if the reviewer is right, you may not experience it much at all. You’ll just read it and reflect on your past experience. It’s all we may really do anyway, says the reviewer. And with that, I respectfully disagree.
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes | LitReactor
A really interesting article on the history of Tumblr, social blogging, and where it’s going.
Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!
