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catherineldfworking on my query letter for Silver Moon and the title story (proposed) for my new collection. Yay for productivity.
Soon, I'll be off see "Sucker Punch," however, and will toss out my word count for the day.
Last night, we caught "Murderess" at Theater Unbound. It's a series of monologues about women who killed abusive husbands, cruel fathers, annoying parents and random suitors. The first half is what might be termed the sympathetic killers: abuse survivor Laura Fair killing her married lover after he threatens her and her daughter, an abused farmer's wife is left on her own to deal with a very real threat to herself and her family and takes matters in her own hands (with the full support of her children), an enslaved incest and rape survivor kills her abusive father to save her sister from her fate. The second half deals with the women who killed to feel needed or because they simply wanted to: Jane Toppan, Belle Gunness and, of course, Lizzie Borden. There is a narrator who ties the monologues together and as a whole, it works quite well. All the performances were top notch, though Borden is not as believable as the others. This is one of the best productions we've seen at the company (we've seen most of their shows for the last 13 years).
Soon, I'll be off see "Sucker Punch," however, and will toss out my word count for the day.
Last night, we caught "Murderess" at Theater Unbound. It's a series of monologues about women who killed abusive husbands, cruel fathers, annoying parents and random suitors. The first half is what might be termed the sympathetic killers: abuse survivor Laura Fair killing her married lover after he threatens her and her daughter, an abused farmer's wife is left on her own to deal with a very real threat to herself and her family and takes matters in her own hands (with the full support of her children), an enslaved incest and rape survivor kills her abusive father to save her sister from her fate. The second half deals with the women who killed to feel needed or because they simply wanted to: Jane Toppan, Belle Gunness and, of course, Lizzie Borden. There is a narrator who ties the monologues together and as a whole, it works quite well. All the performances were top notch, though Borden is not as believable as the others. This is one of the best productions we've seen at the company (we've seen most of their shows for the last 13 years).