“Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws”: Psalm 119:164

The writer of wonders Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees, and other riches, both fiction and non-fiction) once offered a teaching on the ancient tradition of praying MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/to-be-and-how-to-be/a-journey-called-by-my-soul/feed/ 0 http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-recognizing-truth/ http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-recognizing-truth/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:56:36 +0000 admin http://sacredtheatre.org/?p=520 One thing Shakespeare has in common with comic book characters: at big moments of realization, a light bulb seems to go on over the person’s head.  On the stage this takes place more subtly, light bulbs being singularly lacking in Shakespeare’s world.  Nevertheless the moment MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-recognizing-truth/feed/ 3 http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-3/ http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-3/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:37:46 +0000 admin http://sacredtheatre.org/?p=487 “O dear Diana, Where am I?”

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is the title of a little-known, and rarely-performed play by Shakespeare.  It’s a vast romantic saga, with resemblances to the magic voyage myths of the Greeks and the Celts.  The hero Pericles wins the love and MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-3/feed/ 0 http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-2/ http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-2/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:28:44 +0000 admin http://sacredtheatre.org/?p=438 Sir Andrew Before me, she’s a good wench.

Sir Toby She’s a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o’ that?

Sir Andrew I was adored once, too.

In the play Twelfth Night, a group of Shakespeare’s outrageous rapscallion characters plot revenge upon MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments-2/feed/ 0 http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments/ http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:36:10 +0000 admin http://sacredtheatre.org/?p=417 “Journeys End in Lovers Meeting”

(from a song in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)

“The April’s in her eyes: it is love’s spring,

And these the showers to bring it on.”

(Mark Antony speaks this lovely line about a lady who is shedding tears of love and sorrow, from the play MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/shakespeare-moments/feed/ 0 http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/speaking-of-blogs/ http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/speaking-of-blogs/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:59:59 +0000 admin http://sacredtheatre.org/wordpress/?p=49 My friend Hilary Tate had a beautiful idea for subject matter for a blog. “Moments from Shakespeare,” seen through the lens of Sacred Theatre.  Especially since many of the stories that demonstrate the Powers of Sacred Theatre in the book, To Be and How To be, are drawn from Shakespeare. MORE]]> http://sacredtheatre.org/shakespeare/speaking-of-blogs/feed/ 0