An Interview With The Creative Team Behind “Banshee Of Bainbridge” (Fringe Festival 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee on August 12, 2010

We’re very lucky here, at The Happiest Medium, to have such talented contributors.  Our very own Diánna Martin is on a roll – having just directed Good Lonely People for The Planet Connections Festivity she now is working with Jim Tierney’s gritty, gripping play, Banshee of Bainbridge, which will be part of this year’s Fringe Festival.  I was lucky enough to read this script and can only say that I was amazed – and can’t wait to see the show come to life.

I got a chance to find out a little bit more about what it feels like to be a part of Fringe, what Banshees are doing in the Bronx, and why the 1980s made for a lot of waiting around . . .

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I Think That I Shall Never See . . .

by Stephen Tortora-Lee on July 29, 2009

An interesting social interactivity experiment is happening in the Bronx right now.

Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? Well, thanks to the folks behind this Tree Museum, we don’t have to pave paradise, we can discover it in the Bronx where it’s free (they don’t even charge people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em).

Events of the last 100 years have been distilled in stories by people in the community and connected through interweaving matrices of local ecology, the internet, social commentary and interactive mobile technology. It winds through the first divided lane highway system in the US and highlights green technology past and present.

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