New version of Ana (with Dorothy Dix) goes over great!

A really good audience and, it seems, a really good way for Ana Fortier to talk about Elisee Reclue, Oak Alley, Antoine the slave, the righteous demands of the streetcar workers' strike in New Orleans, 1929 ... and, yes, a little about anarchy as she understands it.

Such a fine experience for me, the playwright, but I really think it was a good experience for all who came.  A good audience, a good beginning to the Seguin artsFest, ... the first time there was a theatre component, but surely not the last.

I am grateful to all who attended, to Keith Giles who gave us the use of the wheelchair accessible Aumont Hotel lobby, to the organizers of the Seguin artsFest for accepting Ana's Key to Anarchy (even if its title might off-put), to Carol Hirschi and Griffin, ...

and it was lovely, lovely.

New Version of Ana in Seguin artsFest

As part of the 2nd annual Seguin artsFest, there will be a staged reading of Ana's Key to Anarchy.  7 pm, Friday, March 30, The Aumont Hotel.  Free and open to the public.

This new version is a two-woman show.  Dorothy Dix just happened to be in New Orleans when we need her.  Carol Hirschi will read the role of Dorothy Dix.

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.