Official Invitation - Come see me as Helena in DREAM!

It feels strange to be doing my Official Invitation to see me in a show I haven't even begun rehearsing for, but it is my custom to do this about a month away from our performance dates. So I'd like to cordially invite all you lovely friends and lovers of Shakespeare to come see me in...

D R E A M

based on William Shakespeare's

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Adapted by Kimberly Davis Basso

A dreamy take on Shakespeare's most delightful comedy - 

mischief makers, frolicking fairies, 

eloping lovers and wanna be actors

featuring Michael Molineaux, Amy Joy Laffin, 

Wendy Bellevue, Maura Smith, 

Nicole Brandner Seddon, Rick Chason, 

Phoebe Roberts, Jonathon Plesser, 

William Bloomfield, Nick Martucci, 

Adria Orenstein, Alex Diorio and Kelly Dinsmore

8pm on August 25, 30, 31 September 6, 7, 8

4pm on September 8 

At the Atlantis Playmakers Theater
380 Cambridge Street (Route 3A)

Burlington, MA

Tickets are just $13.50 in advance! Tickets at the door are cash only, $20 on Opening Night August 25 and Closing Night September 8 and $15 for all other performances. 

You will be in for the treat of seeing me play Helena against the talented Jonathan Plesser as Demetrius, as well as Mr. Nick Martucci in the role of Quince! To purchase tickets, just click on this link!

I would be delighted and honored to see you all there. <3

31 Plays in 31 Days: #1 - "Pretty is Power"

Today when I was helping Plesser, thefarowl, niobien, and Prentice move into their new house, Caitlin mentioned to me this challenge she found on the Internet and wanted to do. It's called 31 Plays in 31 Days, and it's a challenge to playwrights to write a play of at least one page in length every day for the month of August. I thought that was intriguing, so I looked it up and decided to give it a try myself. So hopefully every day this month I will post a little one-page play. They will likely mostly be crap, but writing is a habit one must get into, and I think this might be good for me. Also, I'm excited to see what Caitlin generates. She studied playwriting too when she was at her theater intensive this past semester, and even wrote a musical that saw a staged reading.

While as I said I don't expect many of these to be any good... I actually kind of like the one I just wrote. This first play for August 1st is based on a vague idea I've had for a play that I've never really developed, about a fashion model who has a terrible accident that forces her has to reevaluate her values. So I wrote a little bit I imagined for that. Here is that little bit, completely unedited. I think I'm off to a decent start.

( Day #1 - "Pretty is Power" )