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"13 Questions "
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Bark Magazine (July/August
2006)
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This
piece was originally read as part of "Unleashed,"
a performance event organized by Holly Hughes at Dixon
Place in New York.
Lately, I've been interviewing dogs.
One thing I've learned about dogs. They don't like to
be interviewed.
I tried to frame my questions creatively. They were
breed-specific, yet accommodating to mixed breeds. Sensitive,
even. Yet, curiously enough, several of the dogs I spoke
with gave the same answer to every one of my questions.
Which I thought to be nuanced and . . . |
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"Field
Notes From A Map of Doubt and Rescue"
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The Dramatist (September/October
2005)
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I write this from the road, where I'm
touring the readings, workshops, short lists, cancelled
productions, and award ceremonies of my unproduced play,
A Map of Doubt and Rescue. I've been on the
tour for five years. And I'm not alone out here. I see
others on the circuit. We wave, we shrug, we hope. We
press on. . . . more
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"Scenes from a Best Friendship"
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O The Oprah Magazine (December
2004)
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For more than 30 years of ups, downs,
marriages, kids, divorce, acclaim, rejection, and one
scary illness, Susan Miller (a playwright who sometimes
performs) and Kathryn Grody (an actor who sometimes
writes) have been laughing, arguing, teasing, advising,
encouraging pulling each other up short, and keeping
each other going. Here they take turns answering the
question, What are friends for? . . . more
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"She Got So
Old"
- O The Oprah
Magazine
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THE ACTRESS COMES ON THE screen. Her face
fills the frame. Someone in the audience gasps, "She
got so old!" As if it were a crime. As if she'd gone
out in her pajamas or had food in her teeth. As if she'd
done it purposely to affront us. She completely let herself
get old. I mean, she didn't have to if she didn't want
to. If she'd really tried, she could have saved us the
suffering and indignity of having to gaze upon the hideous
and unforgivable countenance of someone unyoung. It's
a betrayal. Our loyalties crumble. The bonds of affection
come undone. What a shame. She got so ... more
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"Playing
Susan"
- American Theatre
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I come out dancing. It's our first time
together - the first thing the audience will know about
the character in this play they think is about cancer.
And the first thing I'll know about how it's going to
be with the audience - the other character in this one-person
play... more
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"Her
Left Breast"
- Girlfriends
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"I am a one- breasted, menopausal,
Jewish, bisexual lesbian mom. And I am the topic of
our times."- My Left Breast
I never wanted to write about breast cancer. I'm a playwright.
I write characters. Flawed, funny, afflicted. They're
foolish for someone. They long for something beyond
their grasp. They reach for it anyhow. They lose ground.
They rise and fall... more
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