My co-actor Elizabeth Reynolds said I should write a song about the play. So I did. I named it for the playwright.

SARAH'S CAGE

for Sarah Ruhl

REFRAIN
Bird, pretty birdy ( Read more... )

At 9 this morning, I got to participate in a radio interview about "In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play" on 1230 AM WBLQ with radio personality Mark Sullivan. Our director, Derron Wood, phoned in.

I think I was invited mostly because it's a Westerly radio station and I'm local (so is Mark); I got to do something similar last summer for As You ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ( Read more... )

The complexity of new social dynamics ( Read more... )

A short but revelatory volley of emails between myself and Mrs. Q, AKA Mademoiselle Guignol, AKA Ze Most Faboosh Stephanie Shaw, followed my last Vibrator Play entry.(I initially wrote "barrage" of emails, but changed it to "volley", but now I realize both words are fairly bellicose, although volley is less so, because these days the connotations ( Read more... )

Tonight was Act II, Scene II ( Read more... )

Why?

BECAUSE I AM A BIG GOOFBALL!!!

I think I will make MIXED CDs for the cast.

IN THE NEXT ROOM PLAYLIST

Shake Your Lovemaker 5:50 Cherry Poppin Daddies

Good Vibrations 3:36 Beach Boys

The Blind Men And The Elephant 5:33 Natalie Merchant

She Blinded Me With Science 3:44 Thomas Dolby

Alone And Foresaken 3:32 Emmylou Harris

You Drive Me ( Read more... )

The director for the play is in tech for another play. The assistant director is out of town. I'm about to go out of town ( Read more... )

I'm getting ready for work this morning, you know, mascara or whatever, and Sita walks in just as I'm saying to myself in the mirror, "You are a fragile flower ( Read more... )

In a most astonishing turn of events, I was yesterday offered the role of Mrs. Daldry in Sarah Ruhl's "In the Next Room," or "The Vibrator Play ( Read more... )