Comments | ellen_kushner: OR, (through Dec. 13th)

ellen_kushner

OR, (through Dec. 13th)

Dec 12, 2009 01:02

No, really, I insist. If you're near NYC, see Liz Duffy Adams' play "Or," if you possibly can. It's about a woman who wants to be a famous writer, and theatre people, and kings with deliciously long hair, and language and gender. See?

Tix are $20 if you turn up 1 hr before the show (and there are still seats.) The NYTimes loved it, and was ( Read more... )

theater, writers, clippings, women's history

Comments 14

sararyan December 12 2009, 08:11:34 UTC

"...this our wilding world cannot be hemmed
Within a made-up symmetry of sense"

Could be a good Bordertown epigraph...

ellen_kushner December 12 2009, 15:16:31 UTC

Hmmm...!

She had me at
"We all embody opposites within
Or else we’re frankly far too dull to live"
- my beloved Shakespeare teacher, Edward Tayler, was a great one for that sentiment. and the poets who expressed it. He woulda loved this play.

la_marquise_de_ December 12 2009, 14:29:22 UTC

I will hope for a London production. It sounds delectable.

movingfinger December 12 2009, 16:02:58 UTC

This sounds brilliantly fun!

I was actually looking at flights and hotels for the 13th on the day that I took a header and cracked the stupid bone in my foot, in order to take a quick trip to your Fair City. Not any more... Hope they put it on again. Somewhere.

ellen_kushner December 12 2009, 21:12:27 UTC

Oh, no! So sorry to hear about your foot. Feel better, and let us know when you're coming to NYC.

pameladean December 12 2009, 18:11:19 UTC

Nom nom nom!

I think somebody's read Fry, too, perhaps.

P.

ellen_kushner December 12 2009, 21:11:53 UTC

I had that thought, too, during the show! (I'm amazed you picked it up from just the little bit here.) It is not at all fashionable to admit to Fry these days, but I'll have to ask her when we finally meet.

pameladean December 12 2009, 22:17:28 UTC

I'm almost pickled in Fry, because our play-reading group read him repeatedly. He really wants reading aloud, and rewards it extravagantly. I'm glad the prologue isn't anomalous in that regard. I can't wait to hear your tale of meeting the playwright.

I hadn't realized that Fry was out of fashion, aside from grumbling about how the Guthrie NEVER EVER does any any more.

P.

ellen_kushner March 2 2013, 05:59:36 UTC

Eeeeep!! It's playing in St. Paul, now! Here's the promo video. I hope you can go!
http://vimeo.com/60849692

usullusa December 12 2009, 23:23:51 UTC

I wasn't going to see this because I'm in the throes of finals and then I thought-- I can just write my paper for my baroque theater class on Aphra Behn! Perfect excuse!