We should not be trading with these subversive commie shitbags.
Moar news of the obvious.
It's just the lit end of some NASA guy's cig.
Something's not right about this bio…
29 yrs. old and has a BS, a masters, a law degree, worked at the Hague, AND in Zambia at a human rights clinic.
Ummm, no. She wouldn't have even graduated until she was 28.
When Shakespeare wrote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," he had obviously never met Tegan Shohet.
The 29-year-old, making her professional directing debut this week with the production of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs, has spent the last decade juggling her twin interests: law and theatre.
"Even though my career path has always been on the legal side," she admitted in a recent interview, "I always knew I'd wind up doing theatre as well one day."
She certainly enters the artistic fray with one of the most impressive sets of academic credentials on record: a BA from Harvard in Economics, a Master's in International Relations from Oxford (where she was a Rhodes scholar) and a law degree from Yale.
She has worked with the International Criminal Court at the Hague and had a stint in Zambia as a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights clinic.
Her interest in theatre began when she was sent as a teenager to a public speaking instructor to cure her shyness, "and by the end of the year," Shohet recalls, laughing, "she had me acting in plays."
On the theatrical side, she's trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as Soulpepper Theatre and has worked in venues as varied as the Edinburgh Fringe and the Yale School of Drama.
But both threads of her life seem to have been meant to come together working on this play.
Frank McGuinness's drama was first staged in London and New York in 1992, with a run here at Tarragon Theatre following in 1994. A 2005 British revival acquainted audiences again with just how sadly topical the script had remained.
It tells the story of three men (an Englishman, an Irishman and an American) who are being held hostage in Lebanon by an unnamed Arab organization.
It originally evoked the Middle Eastern captivity of journalist John McCarthy, as well as Terry Waite, the clergyman imprisoned for trying to negotiate the release of his colleague.
Back in 1992, the Evening Standard praised the way the play "distills the high anxiety" of the hostage crisis, but 16 years later there are new names to remind us of the play's relevance.
"Just when rehearsals started, we all had to come to grips with the Melissa Fung affair," recalls Shohet, referencing the capture of the CBC journalist in Afghanistan this fall.
"And then just last week," she adds softly, "there was Mumbai."
The terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of hundreds in India last week "made us realize that theatre can be very relevant to the larger community of the world in which we live."
Adding fuel to the fire is that two of Shohet's actors, R.H. Thomson and David Ferry, are known for their intense political interests.
"I didn't know that when I first approached them about being in the play," admits Shohet, "but the script's political content was one of the things that attracted them most about the project. …
"Ultimately all of us want to do a great show, one that means something today."
When Shohet describes what she feels is the secret of the play's message, it does sound eerily relevant to the current world situation.
"What I love about it is how it uses the personal to talk about the political. Three men rely on their friendship to get through an incredibly difficult situation. They are pawns. Powerless. They don't know why they're being held. It's about being able to cope with political situations we don't entirely understand."
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2008/12/04/this_lawyer_gets_beyond_courtroom_dramas.html
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Muh illegals don't have bank accounts. Use cash. OH NO! Can't go cashless!
The problem is they'll treat it like abortion. Keep pushing the limits further and further until they're killing off people who cost too much to keep alive, or butthurt family members will get Power of Atty over ol' pops and kill him off to get the inheritance.
https://twitter.com/TheSpeaker2018/status/1117275951274979328
President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a new interview that the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could uncover details of a Ukrainian plot against Trump and Russia.
I think I remember that. Or maybe it was another story- people only lived to 50yo and had to suicide.