An excerpt from Whatever and Delicately ...
YADRA: When a lady wants to tip me, she looks me in the eye and hands me the money and thanks me for my service. I put her gift in my pocket. Someone who wants to throw a bill in a glass jar — or worse, a cut-up plastic something — that someone can keep her paper. It's worthless to me.
LISA: You probably lose a lot of money that way.
YADRA: Less than you would think, and you know, there's more to life than money.
LISA: So says the woman who sits next to a crapper all day.
My play, Whatever & Delicately, is going to be a part of THE LOOKING GLASS Spring 2008 Writer/Director Forum, which opens today! W&D is part of the programming for week 3, which takes place from JUNE 19-22. Get your tickets today!
The Spring 2008 Writer/Director Forum, a festival of workshop productions of plays featuring new writers and directors, runs June 5-29 at The Looking Glass Theatre (422 West 57th Street).
The Looking Glass Writer/Director Forum is part of the company's mission to reflect life on the stage with truth and theatricality while exploring a female vision/aesthetic. The festival is held twice a year at The Looking Glass Theatre. This year's spring festival features the work of twelve emerging female directors tackling new works. Throughout the four-week festival, directors will present a wide range of styles, from new adaptations of John Baptiste Racine's PHAEDRA to new works such as Whatever & Delicately by moi.
The lighting designer for the Spring 2008 Forum is Jason Miller. The full performance schedule is as follows:
WEEK 1 - JUNE 5-8
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Jessica Lazar
SKETCH by Carolyn Kras, directed by Jen Browne
Opinions can very and people change, but when it comes to love what can be
forgotten and what is unforgivable?
AMERICAN INFIDELITY, By Isabella Russell-Ides, directed by Shira Danan
A president. His wife. His moony mistress. What if their lives are just an
American Dream?
SURFACING Written and Directed by Julia Martin
Do you ever think about the people you left behind?
WEEK 2 - JUNE 12-15
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Rebecca Lewis-Whitson
MOVING PARTS by Judith Pratt, directed by Caroline Lakin
Day in and day out, what parts do you play?
BABY BOOM by Lia Romeo, directed by Krystal Osborne
Happiness is a warm gun - The Beatles.
GENTLE GIRL by Gail Bennington, directed by Rose Ginsberg
In which we meet two girls, a mouse and the ghost of a hero.
WEEK 3 - JUNE 19-22
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Sarah Wansley
HOLYMARRIAGE.COM by Kate McLeod, directed by Cristina Knutson
Do people really want to reveal everything about themselves, even to the
person they are most intimate with?
WHATEVER AND DELICATELY by Pia Wilson, directed by Naima Moffet-Warden
starring Claudia Debbs and Sarah Pullman as Yadra and Lisa, respectively.
Bathroom maid Yadra teaches the daughter of a diplomat a thing or two about manners and making presumptions.
THE UNTITLED PREGNANCY by Michelle Bradley, directed by Nikki Rothenberg
An unexpected pregnancy causes a Manhattan 20-something to take a deeper
look at her life and the choices she's made.WEEK 4 - JUNE 26-29
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Melody Erfani
NO MORE THERAPY by Lyralen Kaye and Amy West, directed by Katrina Foy
The story of two self-help/therapy junkies who discover that love is
always about making it up as you go along.
INTIMATE THINGS by Laylage Courie, directed by Toby Bercovici
This is where the story begins. Here. In this room.
PHAEDRA by Jean-Baptiste Racine, translated by R.B. Boswell, adapted and
directed by Jacquelyn Honeybourne
When Gods ordain that man should err, he cannot disobey.
Casts Include:
Afreen Akhter, TJ Black, Jeanette Bonner, Joe Cappelli, Joe Carusone, Lizzie
Chazen, Lena Diechle, Jamie Farrell, Meghan Flaherty, Megan Gaffney, Hannah
Ginsberg, Jocelyn Greene, Jenna Harder, Nic Heppe, Katie Hyde, Adam Hyland,
Emily Marro, Leslie Marseglia, Blake Merriman, Katie Nelson-Croner, Chelsea
O'Conner, Jessica Palmer, Jill Pettigrew, Sarah Pullman, Leah Reddy, Ryan
Russell, Sana Sepehri, Zdenko Slobodnik, Daniel Smith, Ryan Sprague, Jared
Stern, Katherine Stults, Jowan Thomas, Alice Wiesner, Chris Wild and
Elizabeth Yocam.
About The Looking Glass Theatre...
The Looking Glass Theatre's mission is to explore and expand the feminine
aesthetic, producing works by historic female playwrights, new works by
women, and productions of the classics re-imagined by contemporary women
directors. In 2006, The Looking Glass Theatre and Artistic Director Justine
Lambert received The Lucille Lortel Award from The League of Professional
Theatre Women.
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