http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ en-us josh.harriman@gmail.com 2009-07-22T16:25:55-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/041085.html In an area as heavily populated per capita with artists as Portland, the definition of an artist can be as elusive and intangible as the work the port city produces. Is it the skinny hipster hanging at the local... 41085@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2009-07-22T16:25:55-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/040656.html A mother's job is tireless, thankless and endless, but then again, bringing a life into this world is probably the most rewarding experience of all. This is the theme of the new comedy "The Passion of the Hausfrau" by... 40656@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2009-04-12T19:31:14-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/039587.html A medley of bright colors, elaborate costumes, giant papier-mâché puppets and marionette dolls stole the show at Portland Stage Company's "Peer Gynt" on Saturday night. The production's appealing aesthetic shook out a colorful, puppet based-theme that tied together Norwegian folklore... 39587@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2009-02-11T10:54:45-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/039061.html In a bowl of the surreal, MadHorse Theatre mixed together Beckett, Shakespeare, a line-less actor, an evil nun and Sir Thomas Moore, proving on Tuesday night that mid-week is a good time for drama. In the second installment of... 39061@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2009-01-30T10:47:17-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/038102.html Brent Askari lived out the scenarios of his play "Cloudhoppers" AFTER he wrote and recently directed it for Mad Horse Productions. This begs the obvious question: Does the South Portland resident travel through time? Unfortunately, the Epiblogue doesn't have the... 38102@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2009-01-09T11:26:38-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/037402.html The first ice storm made them postpone, but Friday night's blizzard would not keep the aspiring playwrights as well as the actors and actresses of Acorn Productions from working their craft. Meanwhile, the driver of the Epiblogue almost refused... 37402@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-12-20T12:08:47-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/036047.html One of the greatest surprises of the Portland Player's production of "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress" on Thursday night was not that five women from various backgrounds found more in common than their brides maid dresses, but instead, the... 36047@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-11-20T12:05:44-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/035216.html Ireland is undoubtedly a heavyweight of drama, and the Thursday night performance of Marie Jones' "Stones in his Pockets" at the St. Lawrence Art Center proved to be a knockout. The play first ran in Belfast, Ireland, and was nominated... 35216@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-11-04T11:10:34-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/034579.html I attended the Mad Horse Theatre's 'Dark Night Series' in anticipation of the opening play, Harold Pinter's 'One for the Road,' but found the final piece, 'Cloudhoppers,' written by South Portland playwright Brent Askari, worthy of more room in... 34579@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-10-22T13:09:39-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/033742.html It is no simple task to overlay the movements of Wall Street and corporate takeovers to the vast imperial conquests of militaristic cunning undertaken by the Romans under Julius Caesar. However, the Portland Stage Company has shouldered the task with... 33742@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-10-03T01:06:49-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/032907.html Hello! I hope that everyone who gets a chance to read this blog will come away with a new insight on what is being discussed, even if you disagree with me completely. That is the plan. Personally, I am from... 32907@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-09-14T11:50:58-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/032896.html Out of form and into place. Left of the grid-work, go straight and then take a sharp right and stop. Dip the pen in the paint and draw circles, going the opposite direction of the start. Stop. The sun... 32896@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/epiblogue/ 2008-09-13T17:28:58-05:00