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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

So at last weekend’s prop build, I made the saddest prop cake in the entire world. And not on purpose, either. This week I took another crack at it and it came out much better. There are two cakes in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. The most important one is the sad cake that Emily makes […]

As the prop person, my active involvement in the production is coming to an end. The vast majority of the props have now been assembled; there are a few I forgot to bring yesterday, and a few that are still being tracked down by the prop elves. We don’t know yet how the gravy will […]