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THE ARTS
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JOHNNY DEPP'S BIERCE MUSIC VIDEO
 Some media sources have banned the video, which is based on Bierce's psychological masterpiece, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," because of its graphic and violent ending. Actor Johnny Depp directed "Unloveable," sung by Stephen Jones, lead singer of the British rock band Babybird. It was shot in Herts, England, and marks Depp's directorial debut. Bierce fan or not this is powerful!
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TEN PARALLELS BETWEEN SOUTH PARK'S
ERIC CARTMAN AND AMBROSE BIERCE
 "It's surprisingly easy to see similarities between Bierce's infamous collection of misanthropic, cynical definitions in The Devil's Dictionary, and the poop joke-smattered tao of [the comic character] Cartman." By Gray Chapman at
Paste Magazine.com
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AMBROSE BIERCE: TALES & TIMES
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Rob Holmes as Bierce |
Staged at Chicago's Lincoln Square Theater, winter 2009.
For cast photos and other notes click HERE.
Visual Artist Adopts Bierce Motif
Stephen G. Rhodes applies sculpture, photographs, drawings, and a double-screen video based on "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." Go to The New York Times. Rhodes' bio and more images here
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TWO SHORT PLAYS ABOUT
AMBROSE BIERCE
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Sparks fly as Swaim's one-act play focuses on the combative first meeting between Bierce and the California novelist Gertrude Atherton in 1889. read here
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Gertrude Atherton
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Thomas Burks as Bierce
in original production
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Foster's two-act play is set in Mexico in 1913 as Bierce toys with the notion of suicide. Premiered at the Unicorn Theatre, Carmel, California, 2001 read here
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Four Bierce Operas
 above: From David Lang's Difficulty of Crossing a Field
St. Ambrose by Rodney Waschka II
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Thea Musgrave
Mocking Bird by Thea Musgrave
Difficulty of Crossing a Field by David Lang
FOUR BIERCE IMPERSONATORS
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Stephen Mellor as Ambrose Bierce
Marc Robinson in the Village Voice reviews the Mac Wellman play, Bitter Bierce, or The Friction We Call Grief. And a review by Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times.
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Stephen Mellor as Bierce
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Ed Scutt as Bierce
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Almighty God Bierce
Ed Scutt Portrays Ambrose Bierce
Ed Scutt's two-act, one-man play is posted here in its entirety -- and serves as a virtual biography of Ambrose Bierce. Click on the title above to read it.
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Joshua Kane's Gothic at Midnight
In his one-man show Kane, as Bierce, draws from the works of such literary giants as Bierce, Dickens, Poe, and Shaw.
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Joshua Kane as Bierce
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Felix Justice as Bierce
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Bierce Returns
Felix Justice is Ambrose Bierce
Justice is an African-American Bierce in a one-man show, The Miraculous Return of Ambrose Bierce, written by Bart Schneider and performed in San Francisco. View four short vidoes HERE
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