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Plague Mask Players has specialized in twists on Shakespeare, a popular but often misguided strategy to modernize the Bard that can wind up undermining the text. Not so with this young company ...
The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a medical facility.
A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in ...
MarketWatch.com This freaky plague mask is among the contenders in one museum’s creepy online challenge A decapitated cat plucking a harp competes with plague mask for creepiest exhibits ...
The story is technically the same, but, in the new production by Plague Mask Players (PMP), an updated story and a modern approach to an old classic will make its Dallas premiere on Thursday ...
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is presented in the style of a 1950’s sitcom. This retro aesthetic will both amplify the humor and ...
And there are other masks with modern relevance, such as those dating to the 1500s used by doctors dealing with the plague. The eyes were glass, and the long beak was stuffed with aromatic herbs.
Last weekend, Plague Mask Players (PMP) opened Alice: A Variation on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland at the Wyly Studio Theater. The play is part of the Elevator Project series which gives ...
It tells how Liu's great-grandfather, Dr. Wu Lien-teh, ended a plague by creating the predecessor of what is now the N-95 mask more than a century ago.
Classic Lemonade By the Middle Ages, lemons had been selectively bred until they were sour, and Islamic physicians had unlocked even more of the fruit’s curative potential. Elixirs of honey-sweetened ...