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...children's-book author, David Kirk has a gilt-edged resume: son of puppeteers from Ohio; onetime toymaker; lives in a home in the woods full of small model robots and often works from his two-story Victorian-style tree house; has two daughters, Violet and Primrose, and another, Wisteria...
...shows will also be truer to the name “Experimental Theater” than some past seasons have been, according to Joy B. Fairfield ’03. Fairfield will direct HouseBreakHeart, an adaptation of a Victorian work called The Heartbreak House...
Opposite the frame on the split stage is the living room of a gothic Southern estate scattered with newspaper and Victorian furniture. This serves as the “fictitious” stage, although it more closely resembles reality than the “off-stage space” within the play...
Originally a Victorian parlor game, bunco made its way to the U.S. in the mid-1850s as a gambling game known first as "banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko." During the Gold Rush, a crooked gambler in San Francisco is said to have used the game to bilk some Forty-Niners out of their money, turning its name into a general term for cons. In 1996 Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather...
Whether it is the Victorian-era style of their Mather common room, Maats’ turn in drag at the Miss Harvard pageant or his running in gold paint with angel wings at primal scream, Maats likes to rebel against the conventional...