David Bowie died on 10 January 2016. He was 69 years old, three years younger than I am. The only album of his that I owned was Ziggy Stardust back in 1972 and, later, I was a big fan of three of his movies—The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), The Hunger (1983), and Merry…
There’s a wonderful profile piece in the Lawrence Journal-World this morning about the indefatigable Ric Averill, founder of the pioneering local theater group called the Seem-To-Be-Players from the 1970s, and current director of performing arts at the Lawrence Arts Center. In the article, Mary Doveton says this about Ric: “He’s like any of us that…
Through the years, I’ve had a strange love/hate relationship with Mary Doveton, the Founding Mother and Executive Director of Theatre Lawrence, formerly the Lawrence Community Theatre. Mary directed the world premiere of my play Flesh, Flash and Frank Harris (1984); and encouraged me to direct three others of my own at LCT—Hatchet Club (1983), Chambers…
Requirements: 35 parts which can be played by 5F, 8M Setting: The bedroom and study of Frank Harris in Nice. Prominently displayed in one corner is a life-size plaster reproduction of the Venus de Milo. For the flashback sequences, there is a limbo area downstage, and also various platforms upstage. Mid-morning, late August, 1931. Plot:…