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"To Paint the
Portrait of a Bird"
Poetry
in motion....a
beautiful short film
inspired by the famous Jacques Prevert masterpiece.
As he is observed by a young boy, a painter seeks to
capture life, a living thing ... a bird ... on canvas.
Available in the original French or in the English
translation by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Canada/US, August 2007, 15 mins.
"The
acting is superb ... Simple yet sophisticated, this
cinematic masterpiece is a rare find ..." School
Library Journal, Nov. 2008, p.64.
(WINNER!
- Best Short Film, 2007 New York/Avignon Film
Festival)
"... a
lovely landmark film about art ..." - F. Murray
Abraham
www.topainttheportraitofabird.com
DVD $10
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The Hypnotist
Originally a Talk House production now available from
Loose Moon Productions, Inc. A short film written and
directed by Seamus McNally (a mix of 16 mm and DV shot in
Jersey City and Manhattan by Jonathon Cliff of
Toronto) premiered as an Official Selection of the 27th
annual Montreal Festival des Films du Monde (2003). A young man is
guided through a recurring nightmare by a local magus...."a
beautiful job of nuanced, understated film-
making-- suggestive and dramatic at the same
time, which isn't easy to pull off. Very strong camera work
as well as good acting and sensitive use of
music." -- David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor
Price: $10 (Plus $2 Shipping)
Will at Work:
"Live!... at the Cockpit!:Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men"
(at the NYC Frigid Fest, February
25- March 9, 2009)
... actors act up offstage
in the tiring house during a 1599 performance of the last act of William
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, that "most lamentable comedy
and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe..." at the newly built Globe Theatre.
Meet the men responsible for the
"First Folio," John Heminge and Henry Condell. Meet Thomas Pope, reputed to have
played Falstaff before the Queen, and the musician/actor Augustine Phillip;
Richard Burbage, the primary "sharer" and lead actor. You'll meet the Bard
himself, as the true "Lion" he was, and you'll meet Nell. You gotta meet Nell.
How it may have been ... sort of
...so the question: what's next for
the Lord Chamberlain's Men? Hamlet? Henry V? Caesar?
Visit
www.willatwork.com
Murder
by Word of Mouth
Intense
drama written to help the 20% or so of the population
adversely affected by alcohol fallout in the family.
A one-act play produced at the Greenwich Street
Theatre in NY. Caution:
crime scene. Screenplay in progress
The Lady
and the Lion (short novel)
In two-act form, it is a satire of media called THE KING OF DIAMONDS . It
was directed as a
concert-style reading by George Ferencz at LaMama e.t.c. in April of 2002, and
as a screenplay we
call it SOME THINGS ARE SACRED. Jacques Barzun has said that
“if one would know the
heart and mind of America, one should learn baseball.” A major league eco-vandal
shows us why. Baseball, and the 14th c. Toltec period.
Meet Noland Walker catcher and
civil disobedient, Alicia West, New Orleans newswoman, Siobhan Spillane,
attorney, Andrew Washington, “special investigator,” and the Sioux, Loose
Moon. Visit San Francisco, New Orleans, Houston, D. C. and other major
league American cities as Noland Walker, the philosopher sprite and athlete,
imaginatively transforms our modern world.
Price $10.00 (Shipping $2)
Also
Available: WHERE
THE EASTERN MIND MEETS THE WESTERN WORD (including The Koan, Heaven
on Aries, The Old Man and the Tree, Syllogism and Solution of the Koan “what is
the sound
of one
hand clapping,”
and a
few more ), and WET MONEY (with ‘Tis Pity, Free Parking, Young at Heart
and other saloon shorts) -- two fiction collections you can read for $5 each,
and remember to buy “blak
mal” - a $5 ten-minute play about Michael Jackson, Al Bino,
the Fur Lady, Porter Goss among
others. And THE HARD WAY, a sequel of sorts to MURDER BY WORD OF
MOUTH.
Where the Eastern Mind Meets the
Western Word
Price $5 ($2 Shipping)
Wet Money
Price $5 ($2 Shipping)
Plus! Live site-specific directions planned for “Mistress
Quickly,”
“The Cherry Orchard,” and
“Hamletmachine” in some NYC saloon near you.
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 T. D.
White
is
a card-carrying NYC writer-actor (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) and member of The Dramatists’ Guild with performance
history in HBO’s Sex and the City (The Amish guy
in “The Big Journey,” remember? Fifth Season, the
train?), Deadline and Conviction; and live at The Mint, The Red Room, La Mama e.t.c., the National Arts
Club,
Irish Arts Center, most recently as Ernest Hemingway in “Karaoke Night at the
Suicide Shack.”
He
is the title character in Seamus McNally’s 2003 THE HYPNOTIST, an official
selection of Le Festival des Films du Monde
(Montreal).
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Incorporated in 1991, and named for the Sioux character in the company’s first
publication, THE LADY AND THE
LION by actor-writer T. D. White, this firm incepts, conceives and originates
films, fictions, scenarios and word
paintings; produces and directs live productions.