#ysd

[joelssheep]

YSD!!!!

@tonysopranosrobe

[survivingandenduring]

I had to with @swiftispunk giving us YSD tonight.

[cowboylikejoel]

video edit | "your summer dream" by @swiftispunk

i made this edit to congratulate our girl @swiftispunk on ysds2!! iam so proud of her! she is such a talented, beautiful queen!! she is such a hard worker. it's because of her that we get to feel so much love and feel free through her breathtaking stories. my life has been better since i found her tumblr. a million thank you's to han! ILY SO MUCH! 🩵

BLUE LAGOONS FOR EVERYONE!!🍹

love, s 🩵

[zerosphera]

That one scene from my pov lol

[girlsjustwannadrawwhump]

❤Darius❤ after the worst whump session of his life 😌

[shakespearenews]

Helge Kökeritz, a Shakespearean scholar who once inspired the cast of a Yale Shakespeare production to pronounce the words as the Elizabethans might have, died at Falköping, Sweden, according to sources here. He was 61 years old...

In “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which started Yale's eightday Shakespeare Festival in 1954, Professor Kökeritz coached the cast in Shakespearean diction, achieving the effect chiefly in vowel structure. Mercy was pronounced “marcy,” speak was “spake,” and desert “desart.” The “G” was dropped in words ending in“ing.” The aim, in part, was to produce the play as it had been written and to bring to the theater more of what one member of the production then called the forgotten dramatization of Shakespeare's works.

Of the production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” scenes of which were televised on “Omnibus” over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the critic Brooks Atkinson said: “This is an unusual event chiefly because the actors attempt to pronounce the words in the Elizabethan fashion. Yale's extensive Shakespeare incunabula include, among other sacred treasures, Professor Helge Kökeritz. [He] made a fascinating Columbia recording of excerpts from Shakespeare, read with what he believes to be the original word values.

More and image source. 

15 minutes of production footage are available at the LoC. 

[cylonsatemyhomework]

[eyeballjellomold]

If you’re in CT/NYC/near New Haven, I highly recommend coming out to see any of  the last three performances of the show I’ve been working hard on, ALICE, at the Yale University Theatre. It’s an incredibly beautiful and moving show, and I’m amazed by and grateful to the director, cast, and creative team. I’ve loved Tom Waits my whole life, so this is particularly special to me (for a lot of reasons, really), and the arrangements by our music director, Dan Pardo, and the vocals of our amazing cast breathe new life into this album. I highly highly recommend. This is definitely my best work so far, and theatre is so fleeting, so please make it out!

Tickets are here:https://ysd-tickets.yale.edu/20544/20548

Some teaser photos!

Okay, no more spoilers!

ALICE

Concept by Robert Wilson

Music and Lyrics by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan Libretto by Paul Schmidt Directed by Logan Ellis

Music Direction, Arrangements, and Orchestration by Dan Pardo Photos by T. Charles Erickson Costume Design by Meg Powers Scenic Design by Anna Grigo Lighting Design by Riva Fairhall Sound Design by Dakota Stipp Projection Design by Brittany Bland Production Dramaturgy by Evan Hill Technical Director HaoEn Hu Stage Manager Bekah Brown

Cast: Sola Fadiran, Robert Lee Hart, Daniel Liu, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, John Evans Reese, Julian Sanchez, Jackeline Torres Cortés, Adrienne Wells, and Jessy Yates.