The cross-stitch picture I submitted to the Textile Center members’ show was picked to travel to the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato. The Carnegie is a visual arts space lovingly adapted from a turn-of-the-twentieth-century Carnegie library. It was a thrill to have my picture hanging with other work I admire. (Mine is at the far...
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A Common Thread
“Murderess” in New Mexico
TU 2.0
Career news: I have retired from the Executive Director position at Theatre Unbound after nineteen years with the company. TU has now survived all of its founders, and is set to embark on the next twenty years with new energy and flair. “Iphigenia and Other Daughters” by Ellen McLaughlin is running now – check it...
Notes from #WHN2018
Hard to choose a manageable number of snippets to share from the inspiring, info-packed Women’s History Network 2018 conference at the University of Portsmouth last week. Here are a few with obvious connections to my work and/or Theatre Unbound’s: The image above is from Victoria Iglikowski’s talk “RAIDED! What items seized in government raids can...
Talking the Good Fight
Tomorrow I head to Portsmouth, England to attend the 27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference. 2018 is the centenary of the granting of the Parliamentary vote to some categories of women in Britain. I’ll be giving a paper called “Women Cannot Fight, Therefore Women Cannot Vote: Staging the Suffragette Bodyguard,” describing the development of The...
Once more into the Good Fight
I’m just back from Chicago, where I went to attend the first table read of the Babes with Blades production of The Good Fight. It’s a tremendously sharp team, and I can’t wait to see what they create. I’ve done some rewrites on the script since Theatre Unbound produced it in 2012, largely based on...
Remembering Agnes and Sean
In the last few weeks, two people died who were very important to me. Agnes Wilcox was the founder of Prison Performing Arts, a multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children in Missouri. Before she started PPA, she ran TNT: The New Theatre in St. Louis. TNT’s project to create...
Mother Antonia in her element
A couple of photos of this year’s performance of “The Fundamentals, with Mother Antonia” at the St. Catherine University Reunion. I think you can see that the actor, Megan Campbell Lagas, is enjoying herself. The enjoyment was catching! When she described the Katies’ 1920 basketball victory against the Gophers, the audience cheered. Last year’s performance...
No, YOU’RE upside down
Prepping for a meeting on the “History of Calculus” project, I was happy to learn that this old series of instructional physics films is available online. The “Frames of Reference” episode (below) is a classic, managing to engage its audience without pandering. If we can do something similar with “History of Calculus” I will be...