We did it! Opening weekend was beautiful. The audience members laughed and cried and also questioned why I would do such a “disturbing” play. I am including my director’s notes here as an explanation/defense. Ta-da! I first discovered The Marriage of Bette and Boo—and Christopher Durang—in college. It was love at first read through. He […]
Props To The Bette & Boo Crew
by Susan Harris When I was in college, I saw Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and loved it so much I kept trying to get my friends to see it with me. I dragged Emily, future veterinarian, and Su, future fashion designer, with me to the local art cinema. After it was over, I eagerly turned to them […]
Who’s Who In The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Leslie Browne (Bette Brennan) is a life long Hyde Parker taking on her first lead role in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Leslie has had parts in the staged readings of HPCP’s A Raisin in the Sun, The Bluest Eye, and Yeats’ At the Hawk’s Well/Dreaming of the Bones. As Mrs. Marchmont, she fanned her […]
Another Opening Of Another Show
Corinna and crew are down at the University Church right now doing the first rehearsal In The Space. I went in briefly to drop off Gravy 2.0. You know, I was never a theater kid in high school. I never did theater in college. I don’t come from Theater People. I mean, I take that […]
Plays are work… call it a night!
I was in my first play in second grade. It was called Iron John and, because I had a natural aptitude for being precise and bossy, I was cast as the lead narrator. Two days before the show, we had a disastrous rehearsal. We missed cues, we missed, entrances—I’m pretty sure one of the princesses […]