EP6: Dramatic Poetry

Friday, May 8th 7-9pm Free.

From those of us who brought you The Science of Love back in February, another evening of eclecticism brings you fresh poems brought to life by actors and multi-media. I will be working on grapefruit and grandfathers and possibly red hair dye. My roommate Leora has a poem featured!

At Bob’s Your Uncle/Front, 25 Channel Center Street, Fort Point neighborhood, Boston, MA (next door to Midway Studios).

I am directing…
“Ways to Eat a Grapefruit” by Leora Fox
“Red in Our Hair” by Ellen Lewis
“Hell’s Angels in a Bar” by Frederick Farryl Goodwin

Caitlin County Hemp Wars

Shelly’s family is in danger of losing their farm in the sweep of competition with agribusiness.  In a last-ditch attempt to keep it in the family, she convinces them to grow industrial help - a once-popular crop with oodles of manufacturing potential.  There’s just one hitch, and that is that non-narcotic hemp was lumped in with marijuana when that plant was made illegal.  And now, even as some states legalize medicinal marijuana, William Randolph Hearst’s paper-lobby legacy lives on in the form of this law.  Can Shelly’s family turn a profit on their hemp and save their farm, or will they get caught and go to jail?

I will be performing as Helen and the Farmer’s Wife in a workshop production of the new musical Caitlin County Hemp Wars at the ART’s Zero Arrow Theatre.  I get to sing a solo in a tango number!

Caitlin County Hemp Wars
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
ART’s Zero Arrow Theatre
Arrow St., Cambridge, MA MAP

MetroWest Opera

Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges!

Double bill with Mozart’s Impresario.
Saturday, March 21 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Friday, March 27 at 7:30pm
Sunday, March 29 at 2pm
First Parish Unitarian Church, 349 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA  MAP

I will be singing the Dragonfly on Sunday, March 22nd and Friday, March 27th;  I will be in the chorus for the other two performances.

Ravel’s music for this is awesome and hilarious and touching.  A young boy throws a tantrum instead of doing his homework and his mother sentences him to stay in his room with no snack.  He proceeds to tear the room apart.  Then the furniture, the Wedgewood teapot, the China cup, and the storybook princess grow larger than life and terrorize him with their grandeur and brokenness.  His arithmetic lessons come to life and 4 + 4 = 18.  The child ends up in the garden where he is mutinied against by the animals he habitually plagues.  I will be playing the distraught dragonfly whose mate the boy has crushed with his fingernail.  Eventually the boy comes to understand what a holy terror he has been and begs for his maman.  The animals decide to spare him.