tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16891010622669702282024-03-12T18:26:17.443-04:00HamBoneJohn Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.comBlogger252125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-85489118677849546622014-09-03T03:29:00.001-04:002014-09-03T03:31:15.616-04:00Edinburgh<br />
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Edinburgh smelled vaguely of burnt raisins.<br />
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Which is to say, rather pleasant.<br />
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When we got to Glasgow, we discovered that the Charles Rennie Macintosh Library at the Glasgow School of Art had sadly burnt down.<br />
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Coincidence?<br />
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Probably.<br />
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SO excited to be working with this truly amazing company, The Circuit Theatre Company!<br />
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Hope you can come see this world premiere!<br />
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From the Circuit:<br />
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Circuit describes the play as follows: "Once upon a time, the muskrat
created the world. The muskrat created America, and it was good.
America was a great experiment, but who exactly is conducting that
experiment? And who are the subjects? In this wild, dark, Wikepedic
collage, <a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/people/John-Kuntz/">John Kuntz</a>
and the Circuit Theatre Company examine American identity and mythology
in a journey of epic proportions, with a fair share of dancing and
Little Debbie Snacks."<br />
Now more than ever, Circuit hopes to celebrate the voice of young
artists in Boston, while pushing the boundaries of what theatre can do
and be.<br />
The Annotated History of the American Muskrat will play at the
Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts from August
2-16, where it runs Wednesday-Sunday. More info available at <a href="http://circuittheatre.com/" target="_blank">circuittheatre.com</a>.<br />
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www.circuittheatre.com/the-annotated-history-of-the-american-muskrat.html<br />
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-91441927335820719132013-08-25T12:47:00.000-04:002013-08-25T12:47:29.916-04:00Chicago Travelogue, Summer 2013It's been a strange summer. Tommy left for Chicago in May to perform in "The Jungle Book" at the Goodman Theatre. (Where he was the best snake ever! And I'm totally unbiased about that.) I stayed in Boston to finish my teaching and to be part of the Summer Reading series at the Huntington. I went from the reading (my last duty official in Boston) directly to the airport for a months' stay in Chicago myself. It was good to see Tommy after over two months. It's the longest we've been apart. <br />
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Chicago is a wonderful city. I had always meant to travel there, and I'm not sure why I hadn't before this, the opportunity just never arose, so it was great to be able to stay there for free for a month. <br />
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Now that I think of it, I've actually never been to the Midwest for any meaningful amount of time. <br />
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Some things I noticed: there's a lot of space. Chicago just goes on and on. You can drive for half an hour and still be in Chicago somewhere. That empty field? Chicago. <br />
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Also: There's "The Loop", which contains most of the city elements, and beyond that this vast suburb that just stretches outward like a giant donut. Every neighborhood seems similar and slightly different at once. It's as if Brookline, Somerville, Allston, Beacon Hill and Brighton all had a party, got drunk and threw up all over themselves. And Frank Lloyd Wright is their cranky downstairs neighbor, banging on the ceiling with a broom stick. <br />
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They put cheese on a lot of things in Chicago.<br />
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Their hotdogs are really elaborate. Tomatoes and pickles. The relish is neon green.<br />
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They mix cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn together. Which shouldn't work. But it does. I ate a trough of it while I was there.<br />
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Theatre is EVERYWHERE. There is SO much theatre, and it's all so vibrant. I saw a play every night while I was there. Boston Theatre pretty much dies in the summer, as everyone leaves the city for the Berkshires or the Cape. Chicago almost seems the opposite: everyone is flocking TO the city. There's endless things to do there.<br />
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Plays I saw:<br />
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<em>Slow Girl, Belleville, Annie Bosh is Missing, The Gospel of Franklin, </em>and<em> Buena Vista</em> @ Steppenwolf<br />
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<em>The Jungle Book</em> (of course) and <em>The Albany School Project</em> @ The Goodman<br />
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<em>Big Lake, Big City</em> @ Lookinglass <br />
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<em>Glass Menagerie</em> @ Theatre Wit<br />
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The Hypocrites' new take on 12th Night, called <em>12 Nights</em><br />
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<em>Death and Harry Houdini @ </em>The Chopin Theatre<br />
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<em>Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind</em><br />
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<em>That's Weird Grandma</em><br />
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<em>Pink Milk, </em>a new play about Alan Turning<br />
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Shrek, the Musical<br />
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A hip hop version of <em>Othello @</em> Chicago Shakespeare<br />
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I'd say that most of what I saw there was excellent. More than half the plays I saw were new plays by living playwrights. Which is great.<br />
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Chicago residents (and perhaps this applies to the Midwest in general) seem to take up space in a wildly different way from what I'm used to. They take up a LOT of it. I noticed this while walking the city streets. At first, I thought it was because I was in more tourist-heavy locales, where you would expect people to be kind of clueless. But as I branched out further and further into the city, it seemed to be everywhere, and I realized that it wasn't tourists: these were Chicagoans. <br />
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You know when you walk on the sidewalk in the city? You stay to the right, yes? Unless you need to pass the person in front of you, in which case you would go to the left of them (usually), pass them, and then get back to the right again. That's just how you walk in a city, at least that what I always thought.<br />
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In Chicago, people walk wherever the hell they want. They walk on the left. They walk on the right.<br />
They walk straight down the middle. It's chaos. When crossing the street, there's sometimes just a wall of people coming straight at you, and you play this game of sidewalk chicken: "One of us needs to move to the side, which will it be?" I always try to move to the right. But there's already people there, walking in the opposite direction (ie, their left). It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. <br />
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Not only that, people seem completely oblivious to other people around them, even though they're in the third largest city in the country. And again, I thought it was tourists, but it's really not. These were locals. It was fascinating. My theory is that there's so much space there, that people just naturally feel that they can take up as much as they want, and that everyone else will as well. It really does work that way most of the time: Chicago is surprisingly roomy for such a big city. There's always a seat on the subway, there's always (usually) room on the sidewalk. It's almost never crowded the way Boston or New York or Philly might feel. But when it IS crowded, which is during rush hour and any time there's a Cubs game, you really see this space-taking trait. People don't know how to <em>not</em> take up space. It wasn't annoying so much as interesting to me.<br />
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I was walking back to the apartment with iced coffees for me and Tommy once, and this woman was standing on the sidewalk, listening to her cell phone. She looked up when she saw me approach, and then randomly stepped right in front of me. So I stopped, because I didn't want to collide with her, and wasn't sure where she was going. It was so weird. Then she looked up again, noticed me, said "Excuse me" and moved to the side again. There was NO ONE else on the sidewalk, and she still managed to get in my way. Wacky! Things like that happened all the time in Chicago. I don't think it was rudeness. It seemed a special sort of unawareness. <br />
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Even their architecture takes up space: all those tall skyscrapers and all the Prairie School horizontal lines that seem to make everything look so wide and flat.<br />
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Speaking of rudeness, that was another thing I noticed about Chicago: everyone was disarmingly friendly, for the most part (these are WILD generalizations/anecdotal experiences, I realize, btw!). The rudest Chicago native just seemed charming to me. It was such a naïve form of rudeness, it just tickled me. I wanted to say: "I know you think you're being rude to me right now, but I come from the land where rudeness was INVENTED. So I just think you're adorable." <br />
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The subways are very efficient and clang over your head.<br />
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They put bacon on donuts.<br />
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John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-33751775697469681462013-08-14T23:35:00.002-04:002013-08-14T23:40:19.044-04:00It's unbelievable that Jeremy is no longer alive.<br />
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Because I don't think I ever met anyone <br />
more alive.<br />
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And who enjoyed life more.<br />
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His spirit was beyond him.<br />
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I will miss him very, very much.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/jeremy-geidt-actor-and-teacher-was-founding-member-american-repertory-theater/PxfOH8Dgn6tC2fiZZadfuN/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/07/jeremy-geidt-actor-and-teacher-was-founding-member-american-repertory-theater/PxfOH8Dgn6tC2fiZZadfuN/story.html</a>John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-58986239186892721042013-08-01T02:29:00.001-04:002013-08-01T02:39:45.023-04:00Mads About YouI’m sitting in an air-conditioned dressing room with Mads Mikkelsen. <br />
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He is performing in a revival of “Godspell” and somehow, I’m his assistant.<br />
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Rather than the typical comic, clown-like ensemble, this particular production has re-imagined all the Godspell characters as famous film murderers: Jason, Michael Myers, the killer from the “Scream” movies, in the Edvard Munch mask. <br />
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In this version, Jesus dies, comes back to life, and goes on a killing spree.<br />
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Mads is playing Judas as a young Hannibal Lecter. <br />
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I can’t tell when Mads is in character and when he’s not. Both seem pretty dour. <br />
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My job is to sit by him in the dressing room and write down random words that he utters every now and then. <br />
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He says the word “breathing”. <br />
I write it down on my note pad.<br />
“Chrysanthemums”. <br />
I write it down.<br />
“Carny rash”.<br />
Scribble scribble scribble. <br />
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It’s not clear how I got this job. I have no recollection of ever applying. Was there an interview? With whom? Or did I volunteer? I wonder how much I’m being paid. <br />
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Mads is waiting for his next entrance, which is in a few minutes. He seems unperturbed.<br />
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I can’t pronounce Mads’ first name correctly. I say it like the plural of “mad”, which is wrong apparently. Mads has given up trying to correct me.<br />
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Outside the trailer, we can hear Freddy Krueger, Teen Wolf and Pinhead from <em><strong>Hellraiser</strong></em> singing “Day by Day”. Leatherface accompanies them on his chainsaw.<br />
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“It’s so difficult, performing for onstage” Mads murmured, his accent a thick slice of Havarti. <br />
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It’s the first sentence, or complete thought anyway, that he has ever uttered to me. I break the tip of my pencil off in surprise. <br />
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Mads continued: “But it’s worth it to hear the crowd applauding whenever I walk on stage. Do you know what it’s like to hear thousands of people applauding for you, just you, night after night? What am I asking? Of course you don’t.”<br />
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I’ve stopped writing. It’s clear this isn’t meant for me to write down. This moment is for me, and me alone. I feel so honored.<br />
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“The other night” Mads continued “Dolly Parton, Rush Limbaugh and Jane Lynch came backstage after the show to congratulate me on my performance. It was truly one of the pinnacles of my career. Their kind words, they mean so much to me. And yet, I must also congratulate this director. This director, he is a GENIUS. I have never worked with such talent, such vision. I am truly blessed. And humbled. And grateful. And thankful. And humbled. And humble blessed. And blessy humbled. I'm... blumbled. Hey, I made up a word! Write that down, before I forget it."<br />
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Mads stood and walked to the doorway of the trailer. His entrance was in mere seconds, yet he turned back to me for one final moment.<br />
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"It’s such a blessing to be this talented" he breathed "And yet, it is also a curse.”<br />
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<em>(Note: this was a dream, of course. I have never even met Mads Mikkelsen. I'm sure he's not like this at all!)</em>John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-61457488087911827582013-06-09T20:45:00.001-04:002013-06-10T09:12:47.332-04:0080s Ladies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pat Benatar has always been about transformation.<br />
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She's Rosie the Riveter falling asleep on the job, and dreaming she's a WWII flying ace, blasting Nazis in "Shadows in the Night".<br />
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Bam! Now she's a small town runaway turned big city whore in "Love is a Battlefield".<br />
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Za-Boom! Now she's a tortured dental patient turned sadistic hygienist in "Get Nervous".<br />
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Ka-Blam! And now she's a poor girl with big dreams masqerading as a fashion maven in "Lipstick Lies".<br />
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Oh Pat. Will you EVER be content?<br />
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I would hate to be Pat Benatar's roommate. It would be like living with Jekyll and Hyde.<br />
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Pat also supplied the theme to the 80s film "The Legend of Billie Jean" (which is basically an extended Pat Benatar video). In it, a good girl is falsely accused of a ridiculous crime that even a moron would realize she couldn't have done, goes on the lamb with Christian Slater and Yeardley Smith, creates this great new look by shaving half her head and wearing one dangly earring, and transforms into a badass renegade.<br />
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Oh Pat. We WILL be Invincible!<br />
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Meanwhile, someone is always chasing after poor Kim Carnes. <br />
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She's stalked by a killer after accidentally witnessing a murder in "Voyeur".<br />
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She's groped by unseen digits in "Invisible Hands".<br />
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"Bette Davis Eyes" is just full of dread. It appears that she's in the One Hit Wonder Witness Protection Program, along with Sheila E and the girls from Vanity 6.<br />
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And "Draw of the Cards" is just plain weird. What in the world is going on there? <br />
<br />
It's like Kim took peyote and just lost her fucking mind!!<br />
<br />
Now, what does all this mean? <br />
<br />
Why is Pat forever changing, while Kim is chased and stalked and freaked out?<br />
<br />
Is this the fate of the 80s female pop star? To be an accidental rebel or a hapless victim?<br />
<br />
What does all this say about Reagan and his blatant disregard of the AIDS crisis?<br />
<br />
I'm not quite sure.<br />
<br />
But one thing is certain. <br />
<br />
They are both probably faring better than poor Dale Bozzio of "Missing Persons", who just did jail time a few years ago for animal cruelty stemming from her uncontrolled cat hoarding.<br />
<br />
Destination Unknown Indeed. <br />
<br />
Oh my 80s ladies. What happened to you?<br />
<br />
Couldn't you all be more like Aimee Mann? Look how great she did! And she never even had to cut her hair. It's the same as the "Voices Carry" video.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Cyndi Lauper just won a Tony.<br />
<br />
So, get it together now.<br />
<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-56445022920011542292013-05-29T17:05:00.000-04:002013-06-10T09:16:59.893-04:00Lily/Vegas/2Gents/Mercy/Voltaire&Frederic/SaltGirl<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-42979430367190496962013-05-25T00:32:00.000-04:002013-05-25T00:32:00.148-04:00Hot Young PlaywrightThis theatre has all the hottest young playwrights.<br />
<br />
There are no old playwrights to be found here.<br />
<br />
they are young, and we have them<br />
<br />
just for you<br />
<br />
so you won't feel like a complete loser<br />
<br />
they are SO young! <br />
<br />
and hungry<br />
<br />
and...<br />
<br />
uh...<br />
<br />
<em>(Pause)</em><br />
<br />
this theatre has all the young, hot playwrights!<br />
<br />
they are barely born, they're so young<br />
<br />
they have the young fresh ideas that those young people have<br />
<br />
bouncing around in those webby noggins<br />
<br />
and my god are they up and coming<br />
<br />
the next big thing<br />
<br />
you haven't heard of them yet<br />
<br />
but pretty soon, everyone will know about them<br />
<br />
those hot young brash angry young playwrights<br />
<br />
they're just so...<br />
<br />
<em>(long silence. 3 minutes AT LEAST, please!)</em><br />
<br />
modern.<br />
<br />
If they were a little more connected<br />
<br />
they could be writing scripts for <br />
<br />
"girls"<br />
<br />
(you know? lena dunham? google her.)<br />
<br />
or something like "girls"...<br />
<br />
"girls 2: dunebuggies!"<br />
<br />
or<br />
<br />
"girls vs. zombies"<br />
<br />
but they aren't writing for "girls"<br />
<br />
so we have them locked in a basement<br />
<br />
writing plays<br />
<br />
for the stage<br />
<br />
for the THEE-ATE-TER<br />
<br />
So get 'em while they're young and hot and angry<br />
<br />
those steaming fresh-faced scribes<br />
<br />
they can barely walk<br />
<br />
the cord was just cut<br />
<br />
and we slapped them on the ass<br />
<br />
and handed them a laptop<br />
<br />
they are <br />
<br />
unplugged<br />
<br />
switched on<br />
<br />
gurgling<br />
<br />
uninsured<br />
<br />
limber<br />
<br />
crepuscular<br />
<br />
and they will work<br />
<br />
for <br />
<br />
skittles<br />
<br />
and<br />
<br />
scrambled eggs.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-49880584154682567762013-05-13T11:42:00.000-04:002013-05-14T16:18:25.026-04:00Fifty Shades of Dr. Seuss<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(Lights up on Ana sitting in a whimsical
armchair. She is typing on an old-fashioned, whimsical type-writer. Mr. Gray, in an equally whimsical hat, pops up behind her.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I am Gray. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">(He disappears and pops up again on
the other side)</span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Gray, I say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><em>(He disappears again)</em></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>That Mr. Gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That Mr. Gray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I sort of like that Mr. Gray…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><em>(Appearing again somewhere else)</em></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’d like us to date, don’t think
I’m a jerk,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But first
you must fill out some paper work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then we’ll
have sex, what is your reply?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m not a
hearts and flowers kind of guy…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I guess it’s ok, though lacking in form:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This seems
like gratuitous Mommy porn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(She signs the document, then...)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Would you like a little
spank?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tell me, Tell me: please be
frank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>I wouldn’t mind a little spank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>And my name is Ana, it isn’t “Frank”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Would you like it on your
bum?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would you like your bum all numb?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Oh yes Oh yes, I would I say!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Yes, I tell you, Mr. Gray!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Would you like your nipples
clamped?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>In my dungeon, cold and damp?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>If I said “No” I’d be mistook: </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’d sell no
copies of this book!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes I’d like
it on my bum, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">do it while I suck my thumb!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.
Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(while spanking Ana)</em></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh , the places you’ll go!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh the
things you will see!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just sign
this pre-nup <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And you’ll
belong only to me!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(a long document scrolls out onto the floor.</em></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>He produces a huge, plumed fountain pen)</em></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll tease
you with tozzlers and snuzz you with snoozlers.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll even attempt
to ba-bing your bamboozler!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll twizzle
your foozle and bang your shin-doodle<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And then we
can try that thing with the poodle!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana: </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh Mr.
Gray, what can I say?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">All the
other single men are either married or gay.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll sign
you your pre-nup, fast as can be<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And oh all
the kinky things I will see!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(Signing the document)</em></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll drood
on your kuzzle , And wamp on your curd<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And remember
that “Twoozle!” will be our “safe word”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll sneed
on your snoozle, And kirk on your bloor<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And we’ll
spill lots of flizzle, All over your floor!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr. Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><em>(After an inscrutable pause)</em></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But alas my dear Ana, I cannot commit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In spite of
your willingness to submit<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m leaving
you now, I will not come back<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Oh say it’s not so, oh alas and alack!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr.Gray:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And yet as I go, I feel such regret.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will
always remember this day that we met.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(He vanishes)</em></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ana:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Someday, Mr Gray, you and I will be equals.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(She sits down at her typewriter again)</em></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But not
til I write 6 or 7 more sequels...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>(She resumes writing. Fade to gray.)</em></span></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Every year, I write a new play for my senior class at BoCo to perform, based on improvs and projects and characters they create in class. It's totally fun. I usually introduce a "source text" to get us all started. This year is was "<strong>Spook</strong>" by Mary Roach. What emerged was a play about a haunted hospital filled with soap opera actors, murderous ghost doctors and hapless psychics. Here's my program note to the audience, and some pictures of the production.</em></span> <br />
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<strong>All photos by Alexis Scheer.</strong><br />
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<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Welcome
to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mercy
Hospital</i></b></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
play did not exist a few months ago, and now it does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was created specifically for this company
of actors to perform, and you are one of the first audiences to see it.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Isn’t
that exciting?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As a
source, we used Mary Roach’s engaging and droll book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spook: Science Tackles the
Afterlife</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This collection of essays
examines the quest by certain members of the scientific and medical communities
to prove the existence of ghosts, the afterlife and the human soul (among other
things).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Its
tone is macabre and hilarious at once.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We read
passages together and shared personal stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We created
compositions, scenarios and characters through projects and improvisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Text
and structure began to emerge.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes
I would adjust homeless material that I had wrought previously, but more often
than not I was inspired by these actors & what they had created in the
studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was truly a symbiotic
relationship between actor and playwright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
actors also created text for themselves and their fellow cast members to
perform, which is included here, as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
discovered together what this world contained: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Candy
Corn, Plastic Sheets & Coat-hangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Syrup
and disco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rubber
gloves & mysterious blue stains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
found the shapes and sounds and gestures that seemed to repeat themselves: the
static of the waiting area TV, the gesture of a doctor preparing for surgery,
the over-wrought expressions of soap opera actors, the incidental music of 50s
pot boilers, mingled with the glittery oeuvre of Donna Summer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
the themes and ideas of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spook</i></b> emerged the characters,
scenarios and world of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mercy Hospital</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To me, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mercy
Hospital</i></b> is actually three separate hospitals that overlap each other:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In one
reality, a woman lies in a coma after a car <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>accident, while her husband sleeps and dreams
in the hospital waiting area, a TV crackling in the background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
another, a Professor in paranormal psychology engages three psychics to hunt
for ghost in the deserted halls of the haunted Mercy Hospital: abandoned for
decades after the head physician, Dr. Darling, began murdering his patients in
search of their souls.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In yet
a third reality, the vaguely 80s soap opera “Mercy Hospital” is being filmed,
drawing the denizens of the other two worlds into its ludicrous plot lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collisions will occur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It has
been a great adventure creating this theatrical world with this talented group
of artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy!</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Johnny</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cast of Characters</span></u></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pom Pom Girl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roxy York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Alan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Marchant Davis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Weldon/Big Red<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom Hamlett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Dr.
Ian Wingfield<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bradley Gibson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Myrtle<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah
Mullis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Hope<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah Smithton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Carla<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erin “Sprinkles” Kommer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Dr.
David Darling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian Wible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Stefan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Riley Brack<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Isadora Von Pain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Vicky
Campadonico</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Production<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Direction,
Set & Sound Design:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> John </span>Kuntz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Stage
Manager:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grace
Tarves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Text:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> John </span>Kuntz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Lighting
Design:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Clark Wonson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Props:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tyler Brown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Costumes:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel Padula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Video
Design:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah Smithton, Adam Stone & Kuntz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“Mercy
Hospital Opening Credits” & <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“The
Frosting Montage”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- filmed and edited by Sarah
Smithton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Poster Design:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew Rodin<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Crew:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Styles Speights and John Cardoza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Additional Text:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“I’m
so bad at being crazy” (speech) & “This goes here and that goes there”
(speech)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">by
Sarah Mullis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“Love
Poem” by Roxy York<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“Love
Poem Response” by Riley Brack<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“I
need to cut the voices out of you” (speech) by Brian Wible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“Making
love in the Partridge Family’s Tree house” (speech) by Kathleen LaMagna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“He
poisoned me” (speech) by Marchant Davis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“MacArthur Park”, “Hot Stuff” &<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">“Last
Dance” by the Company</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Special Thanks:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Eurostile","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Estrangelo Edessa"; mso-fareast-font-family: BatangChe;">Adam Stone, Matthew Rodin, Alexis Scheer, Richard Malcolm
and his staff, Jennifer Smith, Rebecca Butler and the Boston Conservatory
costume shop, Tommy Derrah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-59408976743164714192013-02-17T18:52:00.001-05:002013-02-17T18:52:42.338-05:00Mercy Hospital<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<em><strong>Mercy Hospital</strong></em> closed today at BoCo! <br />
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It was an amazing experience creating this play for this group of actors!<br />
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I never know what will happen when we begin. Which is great.<br />
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Micheal Kane as Panthino, Me and Bruno<br />
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We close 2 Gents this weekend! It has been so much fun!<br />
If you are around, I hope you can catch these last performances in Davis Square!<br />
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That's right. The <strong>AMAZING</strong> Hancock Family has stepped up AGAIN with a fabulous holiday challenge to help ASP thrive in 2013! </div>
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Every dollar received between December 1, 2012 and January 15, 2013 will be matched, dollar for dollar, by the Hancock Family, up to $50,000! We must raise <strong><em>at least</em></strong> $50,000 to receive that match. Please help with a donation of any size today! </div>
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John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-89964530280545549282012-10-20T20:20:00.000-04:002012-10-20T20:26:35.425-04:00Your Social CalendarSo, <em><strong>The Lily's Revenge</strong></em> is quite the eye popping, fun spectacle, I think. I really have never been in or seen anything quite like it. So I suggest you see it if you can, since it's only blooming for another week!<br />
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But there's all these other things going on you should see too:<br />
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<strong><em>The Company We Keep</em></strong>, at BPT: an edgy new play by a strong new playwright, Jaclyn Villano. With Marianna Bassham, John Kooi, Jessica Webb...<br />
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Also, ASP is doing the Scottish Play in Medford, directed by the fabulous Paula Plum. So you can get your spook on for Halloween.<br />
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Apollinaire Theatre Company has extended <strong><em>Uncle Vanya</em></strong> thru Nov 11th, and it's a wonderful production with limited seats, so get them now if you missed it the first time!<br />
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And my good friend Doug Lockwood has directed <strong><em>Escape From Happiness</em></strong> at Brandeis (this weekend only, so go TOMORROW!)<br />
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So there's some fun things to do! Enjoy!<br />
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I'm not sure how, but Tommy and I managed to see <strong><em>The Company We Keep</em></strong> at BPT right before our opening of <strong><em>Lily</em></strong>. And we were both very glad!<br />
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It's a provocative new play, and it's a lovely production, with some amazing actors and designers.<br />
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So get out and support new plays in Boston! You will not regret it!<br />
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John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-79685587215786774712012-10-08T22:13:00.002-04:002012-10-08T22:13:52.736-04:00Voltaire & Frederick<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-21964522294868605182012-10-04T00:39:00.000-04:002012-10-04T00:39:53.212-04:00The Salt Girl Redux<div style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica,Calibri,Arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">Re-visiting my solo show <em>The Salt Girl</em> for the event below, which is very exciting. </span></span></div>
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MIP</span></div>
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<span>MIP
SYMPOSIUM </span></div>
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<span>What Object
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<span>Registration,
Play and Discussions 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM</span></div>
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<span>Reception
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<span>Presenting
a one man play,</span></div>
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<span>"The Salt
Girl"</span></div>
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<span>Written and
performed by John Kuntz</span></div>
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<span>Ken
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<span>Adrienne
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<span>Roberto
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<span>Moderated
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<span>Lynne
Layton, Boston</span></div>
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workers, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, and licensed mental
health care providers with introductory, intermediate, or advanced understanding
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<em>"I don't make lists when I go to the grocery store. Instead, I
leave a physical representation of what I need on the counter top. But even
then, the new object can never quite match what it is attempting to replace. It
can never translate perfectly. And that's why I keep its empty twin."</em></div>
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<em>Quint, in "The Salt Girl" by John Kuntz</em></div>
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<span>The MIP
Symposium presents the novel opportunity to see a one-man play performed by its
author, award-winning playwright and actor John Kuntz, followed by discussion
led by three prominent psychoanalysts. </span></div>
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<span>"The Salt
Girl" presents multiple dynamic issues, including the quest for meaning in life
after traumatic loss, the use of complex identifications to maintain connection
and cope with alienation, and the significance of mundane objects of day-to-day
life to represent more profound meanings necessary for life. </span></div>
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<span>We will
follow Quint, our protagonist, as new events evoke the past, and as he uses what
knowledge, memory, and language he has access to in making sense of his
life.</span></div>
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<strong>About The Salt Girl</strong></div>
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<span><em>"I'm not sure I could
pinpoint one detail of this thrilling play that could define its perfection, but
as my companion and I agreed, we would be forever changed for having seen
it...The Salt Girl is masterful."</em> Boston Theatre Review, 2009</span></div>
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<span><em>"It is an intense,
involving, fascinating experience."</em> The Theatre Mirror, New England's Live
Theatre Guide, 2009 by Larry Stark</span></div>
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<span><em>""The Salt Girl'' is a
meditation on the power of that big, wounding, and inescapable question: What
if? Kuntz explores that question with arresting originality."</em> The Boston
Globe, Don Aucoin, November 2009</span></div>
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<span>Registration, including reception $120</span></div>
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<span>Psychoanalytic Candidates and Fellows from the following
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for Psychoanalysis, The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and the
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Saturday, November 3, 2012</span></div>
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<span>Registration, Play and Discussions 8:30 AM to 4:30
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<span>Reception 4:30 PM</span></div>
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Fenway Health Conference Center</span></div>
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<span>1340 Boylston Street, Boston, MA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f34a4;"><strong>Parking</strong></span><span>
There is paid parking underneath 1330 Boylston Street and there are several
public parking lots and garages in the vicinity of 1340 Boylston Street. There
are also many two-hour meter spots on Boylston Street and visitor parking on the
surrounding streets. </span></div>
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<strong>ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS</strong></div>
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<strong>John Kuntz</strong><span> has written 14 full length plays.
Kuntz's film credits include The Red Right Hand (Roger) and Anathema (Neil; Best
Actor Award-Festival Du Cinema du Bruxelles). Kuntz received both an Elliot
Norton Award and a New York International Fringe Festival Award for Starfuckers,
and his plays Sing Me To Sleep and Freaks! both received Elliot Norton Awards
for "Outstanding Fringe Production." His play Jasper Lake received both the
Michael Kanin and Paula Vogel National Playwrighting awards, with productions at
the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) and the New York Fringe Festival. He was
an inaugural Playwrighting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and a
Fellow at the O'Neill Center in 2007. He teaches at Suffolk University and is on
the faculty of The Boston Conservatory.</span></div>
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<strong>Ken Corbett, Ph.D.</strong><span> is Clinical Assistant
Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis and an analyst in practice with adults and children in New York
City. He lives in New York. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book
Boyhoods; Rethinking Masculinities.</span></div>
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<strong>Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.</strong><span> is Faculty and
Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and
Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She
is an Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies In Gender and Sexuality.
She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of American Psychoanalytic
Association. She and Lew Aron edited The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi and, in 2008,
Lew, Adrienne and Jeremy Safran opened the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New
School. Her book Gender as Soft Assembly was published in 2005. Along with Steve
Botticelli she co-edited First Do No Harm: The Paradoxical Encounters of
Psychoanalysis, Warmaking, and Resistance.</span></div>
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<strong>Roberto Oelsner, MD</strong><span> has been practicing
psychotherapy and psychoanalysis since 1970. He is faculty at COR Northwest
Family Development Center, visiting scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of
Northern California, and guest faculty at the San Francisco Center for
Psychoanalysis Child Training. He is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at
the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association as well as the Northwestern
Psychoanalytic Society. He is also a Certified Child and Adolescent
Psychoanalyst of the International Psychoanalytic Association.</span></div>
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<strong>Lynne Layton, Ph.D.</strong><span> is Assistant Clinical
Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. She has taught courses on women
and popular culture and on culture and psychoanalysis for Harvard's "Committee
on Degrees in Women's Studies". She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy? Clinical
Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory and co-editor, with Susan Fairfield and
Carolyn Stack, of Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis and
co-editor, with Nancy Caro Hollander and Susan Gutwill of Psychoanalysis, Class
and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. She is co-editor of the
Journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and associate editor of Studies in
Gender and Sexuality. </span></div>
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<span>Continuing Education</span></div>
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<em>Psychologists: </em><span>The Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis (MIP) is approved by the American Psychological Association
(APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MIP maintains
responsibility for this program and its content. </span></div>
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<em>Social Workers:</em><span> T<span>his program has been approved
for <span>5.5</span> Social Work Continuing Education hours for relicensure, in
accordance with 258 CMR. Collaborative of NASW and the Boston College and
Simmons Schools of Social Work authorization number D60120.</span></span></div>
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<em>Physicians:</em><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">The Massachusetts Institute for
Psychoanalysis, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of
5</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">.5</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"> AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.</span></div>
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<span>Learning Objectives</span></div>
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<span>1. At the end of this program you will have a better
understanding of psychopathology as it relates to traumatic loss, forestalled
grief and mourning, and conflicts with caretakers about sexual
orientation.</span></div>
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<span>2. At the end of this program you will be able to articulate
comparative theoretical perspectives on the traumatic unconscious and it's
various forms of expression.</span></div>
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<span>3. At the end of this program you will be able to recognize how
objects come into existence in the patient's internal world.</span></div>
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<span>Suggested Readings</span></div>
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<span>1. Harris, A. (2009). "You Must Remember This". Psychoanal.
Dial., 19:2-21. </span></div>
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<span>2. Corbett, K. (2001). More Life: Centrality and Marginality in
Human Development. Psychoanal. Dial., 11:313-335. </span></div>
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<span>3. De Bianchedi, E.T., Antar, R., Fernández Bravo De Podetti,
M.R., Grassano De Píccolo, E., Miravent, I., Pistiner De Cortiñas, L., Scalozub
De Boschan, L.T., Waserman, M. (1984). Beyond Freudian Metapsychology-The
Metapsychological Points of View of the Kleinian School. Int. J. Psycho-Anal.,
65:389-398. </span></div>
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<strong>Sat. Nov. 17, 2012</strong> - Gilbert Cole</div>
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Psychoanalysis (MIP)</span><br /><br />
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John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-91991665022230684732012-09-03T12:55:00.001-04:002012-09-04T11:13:20.806-04:00start me upSo, summer is about to end. <br />
It was awesome.<br />
Prague was great.<br />
<br />
We'll be starting rehearsals tomorrow for <strong><em>The Lily's Revenge</em></strong> at the ART/Oberon space. It's a five-hour-long drag epic/extravaganza by anti-diva diva playwright/performer Taylor Mac, about flowers that stage a revolution.<br />
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I'm playing a Poppy.<br />
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Tommy is also in it, playing an evil curtain called "The Great Longing".<br />
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It's sort of hard to describe.<br />
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But very excited to start, and thrilled that I get to do a show with Tommy! (which doesn't happen all that often, actually. Only twice in our 12-year togetherness: <strong><em>12th Night</em></strong> on the Common and <strong><em>The Communist Dracula Pageant, </em></strong>also at ART/Oberon).<br />
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We are doing <em><strong>2 Gents</strong></em> together as well right after, with ASP. <br />
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So we get to see each other a lot more, which is great. No theatre widowing, at least not for a while!<br />
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Happy Labor Day to you all!<br />
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-68570830298207640802012-08-12T19:55:00.000-04:002012-09-05T09:54:46.161-04:00Ryan Shrugged<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Paul Ryan? Really? I turn my back for ONE second, and the Mittster chooses his VP candidate and it's Paul Ryan? <br />
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Oy. Great. <br />
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Now I have to hear all about his juvenile love affair with Ayn Rand for the next three months. <br />
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Or maybe not, apparently. <br />
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Ryan is now back-tracking on the whole "Ayn Rand-is-my-gal-pal" motif that has been following him for years. He claims that his infatuation with her Darwinian, atheist, uncompassionate, "step-on-the-poor-and-needy" philosophy was merely an urban legend.<br />
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But people are understandably confused.<br />
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Maybe that's because he credited her as his inspiration for entering public service. <br />
Or the fact that he was a keynote speaker a few years back at a national convention of Rand loonies. Or that he requires his staff to read "Atlas Shrugged" as part of their duties while under his employ.<br />
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You know, little things.<br />
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I read "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead", too. When I was around 20 years old, just like everyone else. And, like most normal people, I got over the notions of those books as I quickly grew older and realized that they are mostly crocks of shit. <br />
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So any adult who actually takes Ayn Rand and her ideas seriously is going to make me raise my eyebrows thru the ceiling.<br />
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Her books read like juvenile romance novels, filled with evil, lazy socialist "takers" (Peter Keating, Ellsworth Toohey) and the noble, hard-working geniuses that they suck dry (John Galt, Howard Roark). It's the sort of stories that flatter and enthrall every selfish, capitalist plutocrat that has ever ventured to creak open their mighty dust jackets.<br />
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And you don't have to be a genius to see how Randian ideas have fueled Paul Ryan, from gutting Medicare to destroying the middle class. Leeches and succubi, all! <br />
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And its little wonder that Mitty finds Ryan so gosh-darn attractive. Anyone who says one thing and then does another must make him feel right at home. Can you imagine the dinner conversation?<br />
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"You want to gut Social Security? Me too!!!"<br />
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Mitty must have had the urge to just strap Ryan to the top of his Cadillac and driven him all the way to the voting booth.<br />
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Actually, Mittens and Ryan even look alike. There's this whole <em>Portrait of Dorian Gray-</em>thing going on when I see them standing next to each other. Or is that too gay an anology? <br />
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They seem like two cells that have metastasized in the same alien pod. Together again at last. And it feels so good...<br />
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Well, I am already bracing myself for Paul Ryan and the insufferable, libertarian/ideologue notions that will surely spew from his mouth. <br />
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It's going to be a long time til November...<br />
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Further Notes:<br />
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So, today I read a long exhaustive New Yorker piece on Paul Ryan (written just weeks before his VP announcement), and I have to say it was revealing. I think I disagree with just about everything he says/stands for. Which is a pretty remarkable thing, especially since he seems more human than a lot of these other Republicans (but maybe that was just in the writing). <br />
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And yet he still possesses a major factor that makes all Conservatives alike: a complete and total lack of empathy. <br />
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Ryan's views, in a nut shell, are these (to me): This is survival of the fittest. If you can't compete, you need to lay down and get out of the way. There's no hand-outs. No free rides. If you're poor or old or sick, well, that's your choice. Tough luck. The government has no business helping you out in any way. Medicare? Gone. Medicaid? Outta of here. Unemployment? History. Social Security? Privatize it. If you need things like roads or schools or infastructure: pay for it yourself. If you can't afford medical care: die. He is a Libertarian Ideologue. A Social Darwinian. Every man for himself.<br />
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It's no wonder he loves Ayn Rand, who made selfishness a virtue. <br />
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And yet Rand was also an atheist, which the Catholic Ryan shuns. (How can you abhor the collective, and yet embrace a giant organized religion at the same time? Isn't that a form of group think, ie, government?) And Rand was Pro-choice (another Ryan no-no). It's remarkable that the Republicans want the government out of people's private lives, and yet are constantly injecting and foisting their "morals" on the populance.<br />
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I'll probably keep adding to this thread as I go along and learn more about Paul Ryan, the man who wants to be 2nd in command of our country (and at least has a POV, which is more than Romney can boast).John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-65916539650650668652012-07-07T21:39:00.000-04:002012-07-07T21:39:26.157-04:00Mister Ice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I didn't say that<br />
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I didn't mean to say that<br />
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The moment I said it<br />
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I regretted it.<br />
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I didn't mean...<br />
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what I meant to say<br />
was that I couldn't quite know at the time<br />
what I know now.<br />
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Which is always the way, isn't it?<br />
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Just when you think you know.<br />
You don't.<br />
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And then you have to start all over again.<br />
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And I wouldn't have said it<br />
I wouldn't have done it<br />
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When you think that we are judged<br />
Not by what we say<br />
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But by what we do<br />
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and doing nothing is still doing something<br />
is still making a choice <br />
a choice to not decide<br />
to not make a choice<br />
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to not upset the apple cart<br />
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so to speak<br />
so they say<br />
as the saying goes<br />
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And all I really would want right now <br />
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is to know<br />
to know<br />
to really know<br />
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what is inside that heart of yours<br />
what is behind that smile of yours<br />
what is underneath that hat of yours<br />
up that sleeve of yours<br />
above that head of yours<br />
around that bend of yours<br />
stuck in that craw of yours<br />
because I'm leaving the gate<br />
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blindfolded<br />
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with one hand tied behind my back<br />
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So<br />
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Could I have cream with that?<br />
Splenda?<br />
A lid?<br />
A straw?<br />
Some ketchup?<br />
Salt?<br />
Irony?<br />
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Just give me irony.<br />
Just give me irony.<br />
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Irony is free.<br />
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Well, <br />
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Not free.<br />
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But cheap.<br />
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Very cheap.<br />
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So cheap.<br />
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It might as well be free.<br />
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-63406078127071463592012-06-30T00:18:00.002-04:002012-07-07T21:22:23.814-04:00Girls on FilmAfter the Guthrie Theatre announced it's dickfest of a season next year - tentatively titled "Penis under the Proscenium", it was nice to be watching a lot of films lately from a female point of view!<br />
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First, we saw "<strong><em>Brave</em></strong>", which is a documentary about the early life of British journalist Rebekah Brooks. <br />
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Long before she began working for Rupert Murdoch and illegally hacking the cell phones of murder victims, Rebekah lived in a magical world of warriors and will o' the wisps. She still retained her lovely, flowing red hair and strident independence thru many trials and tribulations. <br />
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Lesson #1: if someone even mildly disagrees with you, poison them and turn them into a grizzly.<br />
The person you disagree with is your mother? meh. <br />
Clearly, Rebekah had a sticky moral code right from the start!<br />
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All the men in "Brave" are loud, ugly, obnoxious morons, so if that wasn't a great training ground for working in tabloid journalism, I don't know what it is!<br />
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Rebekah: if you're reading this (and I'm sure you are) we are all so proud. Don't listen to those people shouting about morals and corruption. You are <em><strong>brave</strong></em>. Go out and conqueor the world! Why should the men get to break all the laws and get away with it? <br />
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Next was "<strong><em>Snow White and the Huntsmen</em></strong>", which was a parable on the evils of homosexuality. Charleze Theron plays an icy lesbian who marries Kristen Stewarts father - who also happens to be king - and then totally kills him by stabbing him with a sword, which is kind of like an extra long penis, only more deadly and difficult to manage. Then she goes around picking up local gals and sucking their life force out of them by kissing the air around them really hard. Then she takes a bath in white paint. Really, she is just crazy as a loon!<br />
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Meanwhile, poor Kirsten Stewart is locked up in a dark dungeon with no one to keep her company except her lack of talent. Luckily, she escapes and before long has two guys falling all over her, just like in those "Twilight" movies. Kristen falls on a patch of enchanted mushrooms in the dark forest and gets totally high on their spores. Which, for me, is just another example of the evils of gay bars, with all those nasty drag queens and their poppers and what have you.<br />
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Kristin Stewart's main love interest is Chris Hemsworth, who looks like a side of beef trying to work out a math problem. They need to run around and protect the Kingdom from gay marriage and rainbow cookies, and whatever else Charleze has up her pooched sleeve. <br />
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Meanwhile, Charleze dances around and around with a bunch of crows.<br />
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Luckily, straightness wins out in the end! Kristin and Charleze have this battle royale and Charleze makes the same mistake that EVERY effete, gay James Bond villian makes (and they were ALL effete and gay): she waits too long to kill Kristin Stewart, she just <em>has</em> to get some snarky, bitchy little quip in first. It's the down fall of most gays: we can't resist an opportunity to be witty. Nor can we resist mirrors that tell us we look great. Charleze's mirror actually has this golden man pour out of it, like some liquid Liberace. How gay can you get?<br />
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Finally, we watched "<em><strong>We Need To Talk About Kevin</strong></em>", which stars Tilda Swinton as a mother with a sociopath for a son. Really, if any mother is going to have a sociopath for a child, it's Tilda Swinton, poor thing. Tilda just looks bleak and tired though this whole ordeal, like a dazed greyhound. Just when you think she's going to get a break, someone slaps her or throws her pet gerbil down the garbage disposal. <br />
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The whole film was sort of a rip off of "The Bad Seed", only without the camp factor. The weapon of choice this time around is bow and arrow. I personally much perferred how that little cunt Rhoda got rid of her victims in "The Bad Seed": she just beat them to death with her shoe. Now <em>that</em> takes moxie. AND she gets away with it! Which is much more true to life. Hopefully, she is grown up enough now to take Rebekah Brooks' place at <em><strong>News of the World</strong></em>. She would fit in just great!John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-4141518678641119212012-06-26T09:32:00.000-04:002012-06-26T09:32:46.495-04:00Wilde Words<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions--one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.” <br /> ― <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3565.Oscar_Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-60270504313282684232012-06-21T17:32:00.001-04:002012-06-21T17:33:36.542-04:00The Hotel Nepenthe returns!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Hotel Nepenthe opens (or re-opens) tonight!<br />
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Very excited to be part of the Emerging America Festival.<br />
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The show looks beautiful: I hope you can make it!<br />
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We close in 4 days.<br />
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Get your tix here: <a href="http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/">www.huntingtontheatre.org</a><br />
or here:<br />
<a href="http://www.emergingamericalfestival.com/">www.emergingamericalfestival.com</a><br />
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<br />John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1689101062266970228.post-78749252832891342442012-06-17T00:59:00.002-04:002012-06-17T19:14:24.898-04:00Hotel Nepenthe at the Calderwood Pavillion! June 21-24<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Hotel Nepenthe returns! Some pics from our dress rehearsal, courtesy of Jeff Adelberg!<br />
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I'm very excited that my play, <em><strong>The Hotel Nepenthe</strong></em>,<em><strong> </strong></em>will be back for <u>six shows only</u> as part of The Emerging America Festival next week! <br />
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Scary Bellhops! Fucked-up Starlets! Wayward Political Wives! Caffeine-addled Yuppies!<br />
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It's the same lovely cast: Marianna Bassham, Daniel Berger-Jones, Georgia Lyman and myself.<br />
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Gammons is directing again and designed the gorgeous costumes and set, which will be on the Wimberly Stage with the audience, facing this vast, empty array of red seats that the genius Jeff Adelberg is lighting.<br />
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Could NOT be more excited to bring this show to life again! It's the original ASP production, hosted by The Huntington Theatre Company.<br />
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How can I entice you more? The same production won The Elliot Norton Award for "Best New Play" and "Best Ensemble". It also won an IRNE for "Best New Play" recently.<br />
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AND this is a HOME GROWN play, with all local artists and designers!<br />
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Please COME if you missed it the first time! And if you saw it the first time, COME AGAIN!<br />
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And if you like the show: <strong><u>please spread the word</u></strong>: we open and close in only 4 DAYS!!!<br />
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Here's all the info: <a href="http://www.emergingamericafestival.com/">www.emergingamericafestival.com</a><br />
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See you at the show!!!John Kuntzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02247512468540398547noreply@blogger.com0