Allston's          home page 2011   Monterey Peninsula College

 ajames@mpc.edu 831.646.4092 Allston James -Monterey, California 93940 USA   

"Those who will stand for nothing will fall for anything" ~ Alexander Hamilton    "An innocent man is always in trouble." - Henry Fool

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  • English 40 American Literature-3units/UC;CSU is offered four times a year: Fall, Early Spring, Spring & Summer

    English 16 Shakespeare Visions: Film & Text-3 units/UC;CSU is offered in the Fall semester

    These courses fill quickly so register early at www.mpc.edu

  • *Shakespeare Visions: Film & Text (ENGL 16-Fall 2011)  An innovative 100% 3 unit on-line course transferable to UC and CSU.   Students share views on an on-line Forum and compare various film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. Last fall, students in Texas and Korea as well as California made for a far-flung discussion. Instructor Allston James has many years of experience teaching Shakespeare. The course begins at the end of August, but registration opens in May. Join us for this fresh and exciting exploration.  ajames@mpc.edu for more information.  

  • Melissa and Allston times square

     New York's Abingdon Theatre recently presented a 2nd stage-reading of Allston's drama Foreign Women

    AJ with Foreign Women Drector Melissa Maxwell, Abingdon Theatre

     

     

  • "Duet in Platinum," a play by Allston James, was awarded "Best Performance by an Actress" and "Best Director"  in a playwrights festival in New York City's Times Square Arts Center Jan. 21-Feb. 6

  • 10th Annual New Works Festival  - One Good Thing, a play by Allston James, was among winning entries performed at the Santa Clarita (CA) Performing Arts Center. AJsantaclarita

  • TRAVELER castnyc  

    Stephen Bradbury, Aaron Serotsky, AJ, & Elizabeth Gwynne Wilson-
    THE LATED TRAVELER    /Abingdon Theatre Company, New York

 

Pink Brothers new york city

gareth saxe, antoinette lavecchia & jeffrey plunkett -The Pink Brothers, 45th St. Theatre, NYC '09

 

 nycdrive time / new york

 garden talk / new york collective for the arts

 

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General Information

I retired from fulltime teaching in 2011 and now devote all of my energy to my on-line courses, English 40 and English 16

Member, Dramatists Guild of America, New York

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."  - Leon Trotsky, 1917

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1776

 Of course the people don't want war. . . that is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's Deputy Chief and Luftwaffe Commander at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, 1946

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion . . . and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us,' but he would say to you, 'Be silent: I see it if you don't.'  - Abraham Lincoln

A German, watching the Roman legions passing through the area beyond the Rhine, tearing it up, said, 'They make a wilderness and call it peace.' ~ Tacitus (A.D. 55-120)