The Last Game: Reading Collision Course. Evidently the formation of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization advanced quite rapidly after a controller at La Guardia recognized that the private jet he was handling was piloted by F. Lee Bailey. He got in touch with him later. Mother Antonia: Finished taking notes on Liberating Sanctuary. An...
Tag: Mother Antonia
A one-act monologue about M. Antonia McHugh, the first president of the College of St. Catherine.
next target
Mother Antonia: Next reading scheduled for May 5.
reading M. Antonia
Mother Antonia: Script reading for the St. Kate’s alumnae relations department. A tough crowd – hard to read – but they said afterward that they were absorbed by the piece, and they had cogent things to say about it. It’s both intimidating and satisfying to present material to subject matter experts. One of the alumnae...
not nothin’
The Last Game: Trying to sketch out Dori’s side of the story – her Hamlet to 23 & 24’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern. Reading up a little on deregulation in the early 80s. Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth. Mother Antonia: Reading scheduled for Friday.
hearing another whole story
Mother Antonia: Emailed with Stacey about plans for a reading of the script.
on not finding what you don’t know you’re looking for
Mother Antonia: Sent off draft 2. Sometimes when I’m doing a project that’s heavy on research there will be some little factoid that I painstakingly puzzle out, only to find that it was presented explicitly in some other source I had already read. Today I had that experience with my “discovery” that S. Ste. Helene...
M.A. & PBK
Mother Antonia: Finding places to expand and elaborate. Took a look at the correspondence between S. Antonia and the Phi Beta Kappa gatekeepers. I get the impression they were intimidated by her. Perhaps because (for instance) when invited to give input on their assessment, she goes at it paragraph by paragraph.
snapshot 1904
Mother Antonia: Worked on draft 2. Ran into an unexpected obstacle when I tried to come up with a snapshot of women’s rights in Minnesota in 1904. Obviously women couldn’t vote in state and national elections, but what else were they formally barred from doing on the basis of sex? There are lists like this...
comma mater
Everything Looks Like A Face: Sketched out an overture/montage/dumb show to establish the out-of-chronological-order storytelling style of the mosaic version. Mother Antonia: Did some reading in S. Helen Angela Hurley’s On Good Ground: The Story of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St Paul to try to get back in the groove; new draft due...
patchwork
Erika: Watched a video. Largely motivated by not wanting to write “nothin'” for today. Mother Antonia: Took notes on Carroll et al. Research really does feel like patchwork some days. We (I) collect existing stuff and try to make patterns out of it.