The Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies has been placed online for your reading pleasure. This sixth issue is 60 pages in length and includes some informative and interesting essays by both new and familiar authors.
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I'm going to be reading every single word of this one. Tina-Kate, your cartoons are so cool! Kat's 'Frame by Frame' of the cellar is gonna be a good one. It's neat to have the agenda for the 'Proceedings'. Maybe it can give us some ideas on how to do our own some day. The issue is gorgeous. I can't wait to dig in.
So great to be able to read Stef's talk on theatrical representations of the Borden crimes, and I was touched to be publicly thanked for my help (it's what I'm here for!).
I enjoyed the interview with Sharon Pollock, though I still wonder at her exclusion of any particular text, and I'm thinking A Private Disgrace, when she mentions what inspired her. Wait - change that to "deeply distrustful." I followed the progress of Blood Relations when it played at the Hudson (Guild) Theater, and I know I saw the esteemed Kathleen Chalfant in it, but I was unaware that Dana Ivey ever took over any of the roles. I'm going to do some checking on this and I will get back to you all on this.
To put it succinctly, although I love that play, I think the playwright is full of fish-paste.
I just loved Kat's 'Frame by Frame' on the cellar in this issue. It was great.
Mary N's Xmas story on Hilliard and Andrew's ghost was good, too. Different and entertaining!
I enjoyed Stef's article on Lizzie & the Theatre/Drama, even tho I was at her lecture in October. I thought her interview with Sharon Pollock was very good. I didn't know beans about Ms. Pollock before. I always wanted to see "Blood Relations" but have not so far. I had no idea of her background - or how popular "Blood Relations" was. I gotta get me a copy of that script.
I hope Tina-Kate does more of her delightful cartoons! I'm not done reading the issue yet. The rest looks good, too. It's just a wonderful issue of a wonderful magazine!
