Conpersonas: A Recreation in Two Acts

Requirements: 2M, 2F Setting: Upper East Side New York apartment.  Thanksgiving weekend. Plot: A Jesuit priest investigates and relives, with devastating consequences, the relationships that his identical twin brother had had with three people who may or may not have contributed to the twin brother’s suicide. Theme: What happens when we confide in friends, sharing…

28 June 2009: Stonewall Riots

Forty years ago today, I was a fairly non-political student taking summer classes at the University of Kansas, and I did not pay much attention to news about the Stonewall Riots in New York City.  Now, of course, the whole world marks the occasion as the birth of the Gay Rights Movement. But the battle…

27 June 2009: Farrah Fawcett

I saw the late Farrah Fawcett in the 1983 Off-Broadway production of Extremities, but the thing I remember best about the show was that there were two men who were standing guard down front, on the orchestra level, one on each side of the stage, facing the audience.  I don’t know if they were there…