My play The Elephant in the Room was named a finalist in the first annual Labute New Theater Festival, started by the St. Louis Actors’ Studio in St. Louis, Missouri. I’ll post more details here as I learn them, but the play will be produced as part of the festival in July 2013, at the Gaslight Theater in St. Louis.

I’m hoping to be able to travel to see it, but I’m actually in rehearsal for another show that we were going to do a work-in-progress showing of in late July, so it will depend on the timing. But either way, I’m excited to have the play be part of this new festival.

Agnes Martin in her studio.

“An ability to affirm what is contingent and incoherent in oneself may allow one to affirm others who may or may not ‘mirror’ one’s own constitution.”
— Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (2005)

“When we claim to know and present ourselves, we will fail in some ways that are nevertheless essential to who we are. We cannot reasonably expect anything different from others in return. To acknowledge one’s own opacity or that of another does not transform opacity into transparency. To know the limits of acknowledgement is to know even this fact in a limited way; as a result, it is to experience the limits of knowing.”
— Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (2005)

“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children more malleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”
— Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Worlds Apart (1978)

Agnes Martin, The Sea, 2003. Acrylic and graphite on canvas. 60″x60″

For a few years now I've kept a running log of the books I've been reading, mainly for my own interest, but also as a means of recommending and discussing books with others.

Latest Title

The Women, Hilton Als (Vacation reading. Als is a fantastic writer and observer.)

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Fall on Your Knees, Ann-Marie MacDonald (Recommended by a Canadian for my trip up north.)

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Art & Discontent: Theory at the Millenium, Thomas McEvilley (I read a few of the obituaries published about him recently and couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard his name before or that I hadn’t read any of his books, so I got two of them and am starting with this one.)