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While it is true that Examiners are not bound by journalistic standards, I still consider myself to be a writer, because I...write things. Things that are sometimes published. Therefore, in the interest of full disclosure, before I reveal my next three-in-one frugal beauty holiday gift pick, I should tell you that I am running sound for the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival's hoilday production of Every Christmas Story Ever Told.
I love it, incidentally. It's a completely different experience, being behind the scenes rather than onstage. I am very fortunate to be working with seasoned theatre professionals who are being extremely patient with my inexperience(read:occasional incompetence) in this realm.
Why, you may ask, am I telling you this? What, you might wonder, does it have to do with affordable gifts of beauty for the holidays? When, in the name of all that is right and natural, am I going to reveal this information? How, you are by now demanding to know, am I going to draw a correllation between this play and the subject of this column?
Ah, you underestimate me, Reader. You're a mean one, Mr./Ms. Grinch. Let me at least give it a shot.
The Bard himself declared that beauty is truth, and vice versa, and that's all ye need to know. I disagree. Ye need to know a bit more. Is beauty not sometimes seduction, imagination, fantasy? Can beauty not be escape and suspension of disbelief?
How else to explain recent record-breaking movie ticket sales in this decimated economy?
In my life, the gifts most valuable and meaningful to me have been ones of experience. Watching talented actors perform their craft in this sweet, funny, sometimes unpredictable holiday play can be a really nice present and shared experience for someone you love, and is definitely the festivity-evocative equivalent of calling birds, French hens and turtle doves. And a ticket to any of this weekend's performances is just twenty bucks.
Every Christmas Story Ever Told runs all weekend long, tonight (Thursday) through Sunday, at St. Mary's Center, 3900 Roland Avenue in Hampden. For tickets, directions and information, please call 410-366-8596 or visit www.baltimoreshakespeare.org
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