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December 20, 2010 a Lucas vs Perciak Case Management
Conference was held, all parties present. After three years of legal
acrobatics, the "WHOLE STORY" might have
hopefully been told in 2011, but was forestalled till 2012.
Meanwhile,
Molly Gallery's 21st play, Psyche, was staged at
the Gallery on May 27th, after Strongsville Community Theatre's
2010-11 season's last productions of The Christmas Schooner
and I Remember Mama! billed by SCT as, "Excellent
fare for everyone!"
Friday,
May 27, Art & Drama
Psyche
(Greek: "Soul") is our version of the Latin author Apuleius'
myth "Cupid and Psyche" in his 2nd century A.D. The
Golden Ass: The notorious' beauty of mortal Psyche aroused
the jealousy of Venus, goddess of beauty and sensual love, who commanded
her son Cupid to inspire Psyche with love for only despicable men.
Instead, Cupid fell in love with her, himself; and in order to hide
the affair, placed Psyche in a remote palace where they made mad
passionate love but only at night in total darkness for he warned
her of dire consequences if she ever actually saw him. Psyche was
overcome with curiosity and one night lit a candle,
discovered her sleeping bedfellow was the god of love and spilled
torrid tallow on his privates. He woke in excruciating pain, reproached
her and flew away.
Wandering
the earth in search of him, Psyche fell into the hands of Venus,
who imposed upon her a bevy of awesome tasks, the last of which
was to return beauty to Venus in a sealed box from the underworld.
But Psyche pried it open, found no beauty there and was stricken
to a deep Stygian sleep. Yet Cupid woke her and persuaded his father,
Jupiter, to make her immortal. So they were married. She bore Cupid
a daughter, Pleasure; and there was great joy in
Heaven forever after. The sources of the myth are a number of folk
motifs; its handling by Apuleius, however, was an allegory of the
progress of the Soul guided by love. Still, "curiosity"
is rarely counted as a positive human behavior nowadays. (see Molly
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the myth and Molly Gallery's dogged search for the "whole story"
behind it's September 14, 2007 Plain Dealer article
have invoked curiosity: the hunger to know.
Saint Anselm said "I do not seek to understand in order to believe;
I believe, in order to understand. For I believe that I cannot understand
unless I believe." Cupid bade Psyche his beloved never to seek
to know who he was, but curiosity got the better of her. The Holy
Bible is so sensitive to this that the NIVC excludes the word "curiosity"
entirely; and the Apocrypha of Malachi, 3:23 cautions:
"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed
unto thee than men understand." We shall see. |
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| Friday,
November 4, Art & Drama
A
Friends of Gallery (FOG) Art Show was kicked
off at 5:00 pm, followed at 8:00 pm by two, 10-minute plays:
After four years of paper shuffling, (Cuyahoga County Clerk
of Courts Docket Information (Case CV-10-724487)
was at long last turned over to a "Court of Appeals Special
Projects". (Case CA-11-096962) last September, no further
extension. Vol. 737, Pg. 629 Notice issued. With only Plain
Dealer's September 14, 2007 article to go by, we
are hopeful that media coverage will now soon begin to answer
the question, "Whatever happened to Lucas vs Perciak?"
Related
case, Janet E Smith vs City of Strongsville et al
(Case CV-10-714581) appears to have been settled by Smith's
councel in October 2011 (see Docket Information).
Her January 4, 2010 Complaint for Money Damages described
in eight Preliminary Factual Allegations against Mayor Persciak
and former Finance Director Batke for their failure to withhold
and pay Smith's Income taxes required by law, etc. She had
been employed by Strongsville as secretary and then a paralegal
from 1984 to January 2008. In
January 2000 after the existing law director retired and Ken
Kraus with a diverse Beachwood political vita became Strongsville's
first full-time law director; and he and Mayor Ehrnfelt required
Smith to enter into a written agreement which they apparently
thought would eliminate withholding and paying her income
taxes. In January 2006 IRS responded to Smith's request for
a determination of her worker's status, and held that she
was an employee of the City from 1984 to date. She was terminated
in January 2008 withour cause. |
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Shrouded
balancing acts, of fear: money, money, money. "No one
can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love
the other, or he will be devoted to the one and dispise the
other. You cannot servie both God and Money". (Matthew
6:24)...."For the love of money is a root of all kinds
of evil." (1 Timothy 6:10a)
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Gallery's 22nd play will be based on Oxford World's Classics,
Timon of Athens, edited by John Jowett (2004)
which is believed to be "the first to locate the play
firmly within a content of collaboration between Shakespeare
and Thomas Middleton. Jowett's seminal scholarship with his
students and exhaustive research by R.V. Holdsworth have reached
the following 2004 conclusions:
"It
is no coincidence that Shakespeare's least loved play is about
a misanthrope. Timon of Athens presents a
man who expresses unmatched savage vehemence against the whole
of humanity. It does not seek out a warm place in the affections
of its readers. Nor does it seem to be designed to have popular
appeal in the theatre....
"Some
critics have speculated that Shakespeare abandoned the play
before it reached the stage, perhaps in a state of personal
or artistic crisis. This view has influenced many readers,
and has encouraged theatre practitioners to adapt the text
freely. It has a mythical truth, in that it speaks eloquently
of how the play has both fascinated and troubled its readers.
What has become increasingly clear in recent years is that
many of the apparent peculiarities of the text do not reflect
Shakespeare's disordered intellect or dissatisfaction with
his own work, but instead result from his writing the play
in collaboration with another dramatist, Thomas Middleton. |
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The printers of the 1623 Folio text were evidently working from
a manuscript that lacked some finishing touches and that was
written in two hands. The oscillation between harsh but comic
satire and vehement rage results in part from the shifts between
Middleton and Shakespeare.... The
Oxford edition is the first to locate the play firmly within
a context of collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas
Middleton. Middleton will be a key point of reference. Shakespeare
concentrated on the opening, the scenes dealing most fully
with Timon himself, and the conclusion. Timon of Athens
follows a highly Shakespearian structure in its shift....Middleton
evidently assumed responsibility for about one-third of the
play....
Shakespeare's
"First Folio" owes surprisingly litle to the 'Life
of Alcibiades, which offers a much fuller account of the history
surrounding the play's events...Defying this and other aspects
of the play's male orientation, Timon has more than once been
performed by a female actor as a woman, thus artificially
creating a new sense in which Timon is marked out as the exception
from the rest of Athens.
"The
view that something needs to be done to tighten up the play's
conclusion remains widespread." |
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