Attn: New York Theater Types

To my New York theater friends (and anyone else in NY who might be interested):

My girlfriend Lindsay, who is a b****in playwright, is having a reading of her new play tonight in the city. It's at 8pm. Here's the description, location, etc. in her words:

It's the story of a bourgeois princess who goes off into the woods
to write a world changing memoire, only to find herself surrounded
by all kindsa other girls and girlieness. It's rockin, it's dirty, it's
girl's
in their panties. (Well, that's what it says in the stage directions,
at least).
i hate bunnies: a radical feminist play
happens at the Trilogy Theatre, 341 West 44th Street
this Monday, October 21st.

Lots of cute girls for the single ones among you. If you make it out, tell her I sent you. And tell her happy birthday from her boyfriend. I'd be there myself if we weren't in rehearsal.

Best,

Batman

 

I'll tell her you said that. Maybe she'll write a panty play for you.

 

Thanks for the well wishes. As for whether the above plays still resonate, IMO some do and some don't. We didn't do No Exit. I think it's a right decent play, but it doesn't compel me in any way at all. I like The Respectful Prostitute better when it comes to Sartre. Marat/Sade, The Balcony and Rhinoceros were done by another director. M/S is, I think, considerably less powerful than it once was (a la Equus). The Balcony is beautifully written, but dull to watch. But I believe Rhinoceros, Endgame and Godot will resonate always. The themes of alienation, dying and waiting are universal and with us forever, I'm afraid.

But we haven't done a play such as these since Happy Days, which we did three years ago. This season we've got four world premieres (all created by our company), one regional premiere (a rock opera which has only ever been performed by The Kinks) and a tragedy by a controversial English playwright which was written only six years ago. Fresh enough, do you think?

Cool that you're familiar with us. Have you seen any of our shows?

 

That was a cool place. Sorry it's gone. What show did you do there?

One of our company members had her father in the audience one night of Godot. She knew he'd never seen anything approaching Beckett and asked him after what he'd thought. He said (in his thick drawl), "Well, I's just sittin there thinkin... If that Godot fella ever shows up, I'm gonna kick his ASS."