Nice Boys Don’t Implode!

LIMERANCES

I’m directing a concert reading of THE DESIGNATED MOURNER, a dramatic discourse by Wallace Shawn, for English Alternative Theatre at the University of Kansas on Labor Day, so I’ve been thinking lately about why Shawn, who is such a fine and accomplished thinking-man’s playwright, is mostly known only for his work in the movies and…

Woeman: A Recreation in Two Acts

Woeman

Requirements: 5F, 1M Setting: A small studio apartment in an old building near Columbia University, New York City.  Saturday afternoon, late June, the present. Plot:  Something has happened to Charlie Womack, a photo-journalist in his mid-30s. All we know is that he is in the hospital, and that his mother has called an impromptu meeting…