Tag Archives: theater

Stepping out of the lines

Posted on September 3, 2015 by

Summer ends so fast here it’s like they’re taking down a theatre set and replacing it with autumn, overnight. Eberhard has a saying, «I’m a man, I fix things» — and he lets the words hang over me like mist, … Continue reading →

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Acting School

Posted on February 12, 2015 by

She lied about being on the pill for reasons that later became clear. She had bad hair, hair stuck in the 80s, but we were starting the 90s. And then she was diagnosed with a fatal disease, a disease I … Continue reading →

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If the memoir is a mirror you cracked it (for Alan Turing)

Posted on January 26, 2015 by

We bunker down between the bands of snow on the radar and the news cycles. The squares on the calendar pages where you get stuck waiting to roll again, to advance. A clipper is coming from the west, to meet … Continue reading →

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Secretary’s Day

Posted on October 26, 2014 by

I was sleeping with a girl from the Costume Department. They thought she was gay, they thought I was gay, and we played along with it — Ha, ha, “We’re gay!” They thought she was gay because she’d started going … Continue reading →

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All’s well that ends as you like it

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

I acted in college, in a small theater in a small town called Erie, Pennsylvania. The theater was a former barn, and we huddled in tight in a loft upstairs with our make-up and dim light as the voices of … Continue reading →

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