Ana's Key to Anarchy for a UU forum in Comal Co.

Kathy Center could not read Ana's role, as I explained with the last entry. I did it myself. I welcomed the assembled Comal County UU's as if they were the delegation sent from Mayor Walmsley's Office (New Orleans) to see what kind of old lady would object to the Mayor's comments with "He doesn't even know what anarchy is!" (She'd seen in the Times-Picayune his statement, referring to the streetcar workers, on strike for better conditions, that "Anarchy must cease". )  Jan Estes, who organizes the Forum events on Wednesday night for the UUs, said she wished we'd taped it, for the play but also for the great discussion that followed.

But once again, I failed to get any pictures! Sorry.

I want to thank the Comal County UU's, of course, including Jan Estes; also my friends Bev and Rob who drove me over, Paul Martin who rode his bicycle from Seguin, Monta Zengerle and John Bushnell for attending, and Carol Hersch (the Mosheim Mansion, Seguin) for loaning me an antique telephone appropriate to 1929. Thanks.

Kathy Center in a new play

When I learned that Ana's Key... may get another staged reading in January, I wrote Kathy Center who did such a fine job with the role for the staged reading at the Blue Theatre in Austin in August, hoping she might be interested in reading the part again. But Kathy will be in rehearsal for another play. Below is what she could tell me about that play and and its performances:

Here's the play info so far:


CAFÉ AT THE END OF TIME
A stage play by Sue Carroll Moore
the story of a gay bar in the Florida Keys and the characters that call it home.

Directed and Produced by former LA Director - Marian Jones.
Performance Dates Feb 3 - Feb 19 at the Daugherty Arts Center, Austin, TX


I'm playing "Tony" the bar owner and manager, a dyke from New Jersey who's juggle two girlfriends: the former, emotionally-dependent gal who just won't let go, and the younger, current gal, who's losing patience. All the characters are gay or lesbian and equally colorful.


Thanks,
Kathy

BLUE THEATRE ANNOUNCES!

Good news for new play!

Ana's Key to Anarchy will get a staged reading at the Blue Theatre in Austin! Also to have a staged reading, the same evening, PÈRE BOISSON, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. Hurray for Blue! August 8, 7:30 pm, "Free and Open to the Public." Link to Blue Theatre at the right.

beaucoup de français, mais pas trop (in new one-woman show)

Elisée Reclus


I've just finished a new play. It's Ana's Key to Anarchy. Catchy title, right? The one woman of show is Ana Fortier, whose family had the sugar plantation in Louisiana where Elisée Reclus, who would become an important geographer and anarchist, was the resident French teacher from 1853 to 1855. She's 87 as she addresses us in 1929.(He left, of course, because he could not tolerate an economy based on slavery). Dans cet piéce il y a beaucoup de français, mais pas trop.

One more play set in 1929 and I'll have another trilogy. A December Eve's Visit with Frederic Demuth (NYC International Fringe Festival show 2008, a one-man show) was also set in 1929. Any ideas?

This new play takes place as the streetcar strike is in progress in New Orleans. Ana is wanting one of those new PoBoy sandwiches that the Martin Brothers created to give out to hungry strikers.

I've re-subscribed to Celtx, though it has no Celtx Central anymore, which I dearly miss. With this new Celtx you can generate PDF files of the plays, so that helps. If anyone would like a copy, let me know!

It's 106F here in Texas where I post this. (I like that snow on the mountains behind Monsieur Reclus.) Stay cool.

Little Lucila still helping her belovèd Chile

Hi,

Just wanted to note here that Lucila: a play for Gabriela Mistral was shown once in my home and will be shown again to a Unitarian forum. We passed the hat for donations for Chile and came up with $250 the first time, all of which we are sending to a real person in Santiago who has worked with a theatre group in poor neighborhoods and through them will give it directly to someone(s) in dire need at this time.

His name is Mauricio and he is a friend of my poet friend, Monique Laforce. He rented a room from her when he was working on his PhD at the University of Laval. Later, when he was working, back in Santiago, he paid for Monique to travel to Chile.

Lucila was even lovelier, to me, this last time. Thanks again to all who gave the play their time and talent, their heart and soul.

Thank Heavens for old friends, but about Celtx Project Central....

Just returned from a visit to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, with of course a cross over to Mexico for just a taste of it. Cold but sunny that day, Friday, in Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas with my friend Rosemary Miranda and her friend-once-husband, Manual Miranda, a painter.

Manual asked about my plays. I told him about the two produced in NYC in 2008, then told him I'd give him the URL for Celtx Project Central, where all my play scripts are available. But guess what? They're not there! Or maybe they're there, but there's no there there (as Gertrude Stein said of Los Angeles -- or was it Oakland?). Celtx Project Central is all gone! If you click the link at the right to my portfolio, you'll see the sad news of its retirement. And if Manuel hadn't asked about my plays, I'd not even have known, as I use Celtx only to input a new play, and I haven't written one lately.

I've long wanted to publish plays. Real plays. Real paper. Maybe now's the time. If anyone wants to help publish plays, tell me.