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Sylvie Drake

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SYLVIE DRAKE is a tri-lingual translator, writer, and former theatre critic and columnist for theLos Angeles Times. She was born and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and worries that she may have traded one third-world country for another. Fingers crossed that she’s wrong, wrong, wrong.

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FIVE PLUS ANDY & JERRY & MORE

By Sylvie Drake on January 13, 2021

The late Jerry Herman can be accused of many things: “glitzy optimism,” a smiling and inviting personality, lyrics he wrote that jump off the... Read more →
EssayOUR WORLD

Nero Fiddled. A French Queen Offered Cake. It Did Not Go Well.

By Sylvie Drake on October 28, 2020

I know a headline like that makes very little sense in the 21st century, but these are highly abnormal times, with an entrenched pandemic, raging... Read more →
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An Emmett Till That Resonates On Zoom

By Sylvie Drake on October 7, 2020

It’s been too many months since any of us have set foot in a real theatre to see a real stage show, surrounded — elbow to elbow — by fellow... Read more →
Lifestyle

Pandemics Old & New: Two Letters

By Sylvie Drake on April 15, 2020

At the end of World War I, my grandmother Louly Arbib Barda, my mother’s mother, sat down in Alexandria, Egypt, to write a six-page letter to her... Read more →
Transmission lines and lightning. Photo by Casey Horner via Unsplash,
LifestyleOUR WORLD

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Waiting It Out

By Sylvie Drake on March 18, 2020

Thursday, March 12, 2020, 6:30pm. It’s pitch dark. Still. The power went out at 3:15pm, so there’s no light. The stock market went down... Read more →
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A Sheep In Serpent‘s Clothing

By Sylvie Drake on March 11, 2020

In its ongoing 50th Anniversary, revisiting productions it had tackled in its foundational year or thereabouts, the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble has just... Read more →
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A Winter’s Fairy Tale

By Sylvie Drake on March 11, 2020

You’ll notice that the headline above has added a word to the title of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It’s there because a fairy tale is... Read more →
Theatre

Not Ready For Prime Time

By Sylvie Drake on February 19, 2020

Full disclosure: I’m a couple of generations removed from that of the creators of the Vampire Cowboys’ Revenge Song now rattling rafters and... Read more →
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As Shadows Fall…

By Sylvie Drake on February 19, 2020

Anyone who's had a close brush with the devastation of a mind that has lost its moorings knows what a profound tragedy that can be. You listen and... Read more →
Samantha Eggers (center) with the company of the Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of “JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA,” book, music and lyrics by Paul Gordon, directed by Andrew Barnicle and now playing at the NEW VIC THEATRE in Santa Barbara.
LiteratureTheatre

A Lilting Model of Jane Austen’s Emma

By Sylvie Drake on February 12, 2020

It’s hard these days to find a musical written for the sheer lighthearted fun of it, one that may not shake the earth, but can provide some welcome... Read more →
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