| Megan Written by DonnaAnn Ward Directed by Tanya Kane-Parry Megan is based on a young woman, the last in a long line of deeply damaged women who paired and reproduced with highly unsuitable men at very young ages: partly as a means to escape their families, partly as a way to ease their own pain, partly for reasons known only to themselves. Megan is talented, easy to like, wise, gentle and doing her best to find a way to break the chain into which she was born. As of our last conversation, she and her husband are together, building a solid life and raising their son, whom they love very much. Votre Voix Written by DonnaAnn Ward Directed by Tanya Kane-Parry Once upon a time, I met a man and fell madly in love. The mere sound of his voice lit me up like Christmas. Our time together was emotionally intense, sexually Utopian, tender, vibrant and fun. But unwinding in the background of this hot affair was the fact of my father. Athletic until the very day he had a stroke, my father has been left to live the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There are times when he seems lost. He who was always so vital and funny often falls silent now, quietly arranging his withered body or silently staring into space. The frighteningly black and white contract of the virility of my lover’s body with the paralysis of my father’s gave shape to this piece, the name of which translates from the French as ‘Your Voice’. The Bloomers Written by DonnaAnn Ward Directed by Tanya Kane-Parry Growing up the youngest child in a large, mildly insane family, I was animated, easily charmed and often at the mercy of people older than myself, as is the fate of all last born. Annually my family attended a State Police picnic at a lake in the middle of verdant Maryland farmland, even though none of us were State Troopers. That pretty much sums us up as a clan. While I have fond memories of Cascade Lake, there was one summer that my fledgling little view of the world changed: sometimes in life you just stand on your own and deal with it because the only person it matters to is you. |
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