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a death in the family
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 4:47 pm
by Glorious Amok
billy's director, and founder of Shakespeare By The Sea, Patrick Christopher, died suddenly yesterday after having a serious stroke on sunday night. a total freak and notorious trouble-maker, he was recently forced into retirement as an Acting Professor at my university due to relentless complaints about his behaviour ... but also formed a huge colony of artists around himself into a discombobulated, struggling, talented, and often tightly knit family.
he and his wife elizabeth were together 29 years before they finally got married, on the 1st of July, less than one month ago. they were married on stage, at the end of the Midnight Twelfth Night, an annual fundraiser event that begins at midnight and closes at sunrise on Canada Day each summer. i believe i've read that it was the overwhelming turnout at the first of these events that gave P&E the encouragement to start up the company with a full season of plays. every summer since, they've been doing several Shakespearian works and 1 kid's show in Point Pleasant Park.
P&E also generously hosted me & billy's wedding reception at their home. the picture you see above is from that event.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=435&sc=8
http://www.shakespearebythesea.ca
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 5:46 pm
by mtmynd
sorry, glo. that is real sucky... passing before you're finished.
R.I.P. dude.
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 5:54 pm
by Artguy
Artists should always misbehave....sorry for your loss ....and the loss to the creative world....I'm sure whatever his karma is he will continue to lift eyebrows.....
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Posted: July 19th, 2005, 7:35 pm
by YABYUM
i swam out into mother ocean 3 hours ago.
i was on my back, floating, out of strength.
looking up watching her storm pass.
Glorious, he is safer today, then before he left.
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 8:26 pm
by Doreen Peri
Sincere condolences, K.
He sounds like he was a great friend to have.
You and Billy were lucky to have him in your life.
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 8:46 pm
by knip
he appreciates your words, kari
Posted: July 19th, 2005, 11:34 pm
by judih
wow, a dynamo. great picture
sounds like he went out of here with a bang
the family and extended family must be whimpering from the shock.
Energy like that never dies. i agree with Kurt.
Posted: July 23rd, 2005, 2:49 am
by jimboloco
Wwhen I was in 7th grade in Euless Texass in 1959 I had a teacher, Mrs. Dixon. She was married to a preacher. She told us to never say, "go to hell." She told us to say, "Go to Halifax."
One of those little things that lurk in the back of the old cerebellum.
Building community in Halifax by the sea, Mrs Dixon, is a good thing.