Alexandra Silber's Blog, page 22
July 8, 2018
Camelot
There isn't the language to express what this role, process, and the entire experience have meant to me personally and professionally. Guenevere and Camelot were a silent agreement with myself to go all out-- to go big or go home-- before I decided whether or not to recommit myself to the theatre, and particularly, to singing in the theatre.My illness from 2014-2017 left my singing voice in an unrecognizable state of disarray, but more than the physical damage (that, with much help from my de...
June 30, 2018
' Choose' by Carl Sandburg
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other.
June 26, 2018
Ask Al: FAQs! - Part 4
1. You got a flat-out rave review for your portrayal of Guinevere in Camelot from the Washington Post. Was there anything the critic noticed that was especially meaningful to you?I always love to know that the production we’ve worked so hard on building is received so warmly.
I’m not alone in being an actor who does now read my own theatre reviews. I find they “mess with my head” and regardless of positive or negative feedback, they give me spe...
June 8, 2018
Great Day Washington
Got up [untheatrically] early to appear onGreat Day Washington! But I was SO excited to talk all things Camelot, White Hot Grief Parade, and of course, TATIANA ANGELA LANSBURY ROMANOV! The classic musical "Camelot" by Lerner and Lowes is in production at the Shakespeare Theatre and the show just got extended to July 8th! We talk to lead actress Alexandra Silber who plays Guenevere.
For tickets visit www.ShakespeareTheatre.org
May 31, 2018
'Eyes Fastened with Pins' by Charles Simic
How much death works,
No one knows what a longDay he puts in. The littleWife always aloneIroning death’s laundry.The beautiful daughtersSetting death’s supper table.The neighbors playingPinochle in the backyardOr just sitting on the stepsDrinking beer. Death,Meanwhile, in a strangePart of town looking forSomeone with a bad cough,But the address is somehow wrong,Even death can’t figure it outAmong all the locked doors ... And the rain beginning to fall.Long windy night ahead.De...
No one knows what a longDay he puts in. The littleWife always aloneIroning death’s laundry.The beautiful daughtersSetting death’s supper table.The neighbors playingPinochle in the backyardOr just sitting on the stepsDrinking beer. Death,Meanwhile, in a strangePart of town looking forSomeone with a bad cough,But the address is somehow wrong,Even death can’t figure it outAmong all the locked doors ... And the rain beginning to fall.Long windy night ahead.De...
May 1, 2018
Interview with Pop Culturalist
"Gifted storyteller, brilliant thinker, accomplished actor: Alexandra Silber is a consummate artist with a luminous voice on stage and page. A veteran of Broadway and the West End, Silber has performed in productions ranging from Fiddler on the Roof, Master Class, and The Woman in White to My Fair Lady, Murder on the Orient Express, and Carousel. In other words, she boasts an impressive resume that has enabled her to get to know a host of dynamic, singular c...
April 30, 2018
from As You Like It, "All the world’s a stage..." by William Shakespeare
Jaques to Duke Senior
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of s...
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of s...
March 31, 2018
Prologue from 'The Bite of the Night'
They brought a woman
from the street
And made her
sit in the stalls
By threats
By bribes
By flattery
Obliging her to share
a little of her life
with actors
But I don't understand art
Sit still, they said
But I don't want to see sad things
Sit still, they said
And she listened to everything
Understanding some things
But not others
Laughing rarely,
and always without knowing why
Sometimes suffering disgust
Sometimes thoroughly amazed
And in the light again, said
If that's art I think it is hard work
It was...
from the street
And made her
sit in the stalls
By threats
By bribes
By flattery
Obliging her to share
a little of her life
with actors
But I don't understand art
Sit still, they said
But I don't want to see sad things
Sit still, they said
And she listened to everything
Understanding some things
But not others
Laughing rarely,
and always without knowing why
Sometimes suffering disgust
Sometimes thoroughly amazed
And in the light again, said
If that's art I think it is hard work
It was...
March 28, 2018
Q&A: Talking Camelot with Shakespeare Theater Company
Oh hello: this is my cape.Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, DC, welcomes Alexandra Silber as Guenevere in CAMELOT.Alexandra Silber, who has been seen on Broadway stages in Fiddler on the Roof and Master Class, will be featured as Guenevere in STC’s upcoming production of Camelot. She recently spoke to STC about the comparison between Guenevere and Tzeitel, her experience adapting modern adaptations of Greek classics and her thoughts on Camelot.
What’s mos...
March 21, 2018
Coulda-been-ku 14
14.
Time stopped in the snow. Stay, oh beautiful boy from the long-ago bus.
Time stopped in the snow. Stay, oh beautiful boy from the long-ago bus.
