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Catching the Lightning
Barbara Sloan 6/10/25 Barbara Sloan 6/10/25

Catching the Lightning

Have You Learned the Secrets of Electricity?

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What’s In a Nickname?
Barbara Sloan 5/13/25 Barbara Sloan 5/13/25

What’s In a Nickname?

Does your nickname suit you or irk you?

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Yes, Greg, There Is a Thing Called Theatre!
Barbara Sloan 4/29/25 Barbara Sloan 4/29/25

Yes, Greg, There Is a Thing Called Theatre!

Academic theatre is not just for drama majors…

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Does Birnam Wood Come to Your Dunsinane?
Barbara Sloan 4/22/25 Barbara Sloan 4/22/25

Does Birnam Wood Come to Your Dunsinane?

Do you think of Macbeth when neighbors take shrubbery trimmings to the street?

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Don’t Get Rid of the Pain until You’ve Learned its Lessons
Barbara Sloan 4/8/25 Barbara Sloan 4/8/25

Don’t Get Rid of the Pain until You’ve Learned its Lessons

Does suffering help you know what you do not want to know?

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The Chorus in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: A Famous Quote
Barbara Sloan 3/25/25 Barbara Sloan 3/25/25

The Chorus in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: A Famous Quote

How is Milk of Magnesia like a Greek tragedy?

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Are We All Waiting for Godot?
Barbara Sloan 3/11/25 Barbara Sloan 3/11/25

Are We All Waiting for Godot?

Now that Lent has arrived, for what exactly are you waiting and hoping?

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Can a Flower Break a Rock?
Barbara Sloan 2/25/25 Barbara Sloan 2/25/25

Can a Flower Break a Rock?

The World of Theatre still misses Tennessee Williams’ presence on this earth!

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Henrik Ibsen and Hendrick van Tuyll on The Majority
Barbara Sloan 2/11/25 Barbara Sloan 2/11/25

Henrik Ibsen and Hendrick van Tuyll on The Majority

Is the majority always right?

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Does Anything Interesting Ever Happen on a Tuesday?
Barbara Sloan 1/28/25 Barbara Sloan 1/28/25

Does Anything Interesting Ever Happen on a Tuesday?

Have You Ever Foiled a Purse Snatching Attempt by Throwing a Glass of Water in the Robber’s Crotch?

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Molière’s Tartuffe and My Enneagram Studies
Barbara Sloan 1/14/25 Barbara Sloan 1/14/25

Molière’s Tartuffe and My Enneagram Studies

When Your Enneagram Studies Shed Light on Characters from a Play

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The Christmas Tree about Life
Barbara Sloan 12/31/24 Barbara Sloan 12/31/24

The Christmas Tree about Life

Did you ever have a Christmas tree you loathed to part with?

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How Is a Theatre Lobby like a Church Narthex?
Barbara Sloan 12/2/24 Barbara Sloan 12/2/24

How Is a Theatre Lobby like a Church Narthex?

Have you ever thought about how a theatre lobby resembles a church narthex?

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Thanksgiving for my Profession
Barbara Sloan 11/19/24 Barbara Sloan 11/19/24

Thanksgiving for my Profession

This Thanksgiving, I’m giving thanks for my profession!

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Of Pumpkins and Oz and Anniversaries!
Barbara Sloan 10/29/24 Barbara Sloan 10/29/24

Of Pumpkins and Oz and Anniversaries!

What Do Carved Pumpkins Have to Do with Anniversaries and The Marvelous Land of Oz?

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An October of Some Importance
Barbara Sloan 10/22/24 Barbara Sloan 10/22/24

An October of Some Importance

A musing about a very special October…

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The Murder in the Cathedral Chorus
Barbara Sloan 9/23/24 Barbara Sloan 9/23/24

The Murder in the Cathedral Chorus

Working with young actors reaching far beyond their years is an amazing experience!

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“I’ll do it… but it isn’t easy!”
Barbara Sloan 9/10/24 Barbara Sloan 9/10/24

“I’ll do it… but it isn’t easy!”

Maybe it is time to try something that is NOT easy!

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Ordinary Days that Are Anything but Ordinary!
Barbara Sloan 8/20/24 Barbara Sloan 8/20/24

Ordinary Days that Are Anything but Ordinary!

It is possible to step back in time!

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Seascape at Orange Beach
Barbara Sloan 8/6/24 Barbara Sloan 8/6/24

Seascape at Orange Beach

Do you ever take the time to read a play with friends?

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