Nothing to see here…
This show has hit the road — please go over to http://THATHollyHughes.tumblr.com/ (and thx for finding this experiment so fast while we were just figuring it out)
secret wow
More notes towards an introduction for the WOW anthology…love your comments (find me on facebook for more discussion), it’s drafty, and partial, a snippet
Wow’s a secret. It’s easy to miss. You have to know what you’re looking for, no sign announces you’re standing outside one of the longest continuous running lesbian art organizations. Let’s just say it’s the oldest, shall we? It’s November 2010 and I walk by the building at least once. How I mourned we were unmarked and therefore unrecognized; how happy I was that no one came in the door who didn’t really want to be there. No one to tell us what we were doing was bad, trivial, offensive, a waste; we carried those voices inside our own skins but here they got drowned out by the sounds of women trying to learn the lines written moments before, by double entendres volleying back an forth over the sound of power tools, by fights over who was and was not a member, a man, and who would take out the trash. I ring the buzzer. A relatively new feature. For much of my time at WOW, you stood in the street and called up, hoping to be heard over car alarms. East 4th Street was always crowded and loud; there were many villages in the East Village and you had make yourself heard above them all, in a way that your tribe might recognize. We had our own rebel yell, our mating call. Then you wait, til someone struggles to open the reluctant window, to drop a key wrapped in a sock to the street four flights below.
notes towards a wow cafe book
Friends I’m working on my intro to the WOW anthology and wow, i am really really angry. Who knew? well, probably anyone who’s talked to me, ever, knew… but it’s a rant. but I think a necessary rant. for me. at least.
here goes, it’s a snippet….
the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy
Love that EB White: “On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.”
Loneliness here is not solitary confinement, it’s the freedom to live a secret life, to enter a parallel universe as substantial as any other. Thinking about this and WOW.
Dixon Place presents
THE DOG AND PONY SHOW
(bring your own pony)
Written and performed by HOLLY HUGHES
Directed by DAN HURLIN
Fridays and Saturdays, June 3, 4, 10 , 11, 17, 18 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $15 (advance); $20 (door)
A new solo written and performed by 2010 Guggenheim recipient Holly Hughes and directed by Dan Hurlin. A blend of autobiography, animal behavior and bald-faced lies, Dog and Pony is a poetic/comic meditation on the midlife crisis in the key of canine by the woman who drove Jesse Helms nuts. Or nuttier. After several years as a professional lesbian, Hughes gives up preaching to the perverted and takes a real job at a prestigious university, acquiring a small pack of dogs in the process.
Moe Angelos and Dom Dibbell “O, Darn!”
more drafty intros to plays in the wow book…there are references to other stuff in the book, well, you’ll have to buy the damn thing when it comes out!
Maureen Angelos, aka Moe, singed up for WOW before there was a space called WOW. As a young NYU student theatre student she attended the second WOW Festival and as detailed in the 1984 interview with Alisa Solomon, the story of her almost instantaneous transition from audience member to inner circle sounds like a religious conversion retold as comedy and has become a central narrative in the chronicle of WOW’s creation. Dominique Dibbell, aka Dom, arrived later, after
Rehearsing for The Moth, Michigan, Mainstage, June 22-23
Grand Rapids: Michigan Radio presents
The Moth Mainstage
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
St. Cecilia Music Center
Grand Rapids, MI
Ann Arbor: The Moth Mainstage: Comedies and Calamities
Thursday, 6/23/11 8:00PM
Power Center for the Performing Arts - University of Michigan
