At the end of September, Cathy, Cousin Robert, his wife Amy, and I drove to Lenox to see Donald Margulies’ “Lunar Eclipse” at Shakespeare & Company. We were drawn to the play because Amy’s friend, actress and director Karen Allen, was starring in this, the play’s world premiere. We spent a wonderful hour with Karen following her stunning performance. She had a calm, gentle presence that was exciting and engaging. Her enthusiasm for her life – in and out of theatre and movies – was infectious. (I first noticed her as Marion, Indiana Jones’ lifelong love.) She shared that she was taken with “Lunar Eclipse” in part because of her love for Margulies’ 1998 play “Collected Stories” which she had long wanted to bring to the stage. Like “Lunar Eclipse” (which I loved), “Collected Stories” is a two-character play. “Lunar” features the conversation between two long-married people as they watch the moon slowly go into and come out of shadow. The two characters of “Collected Stories” are a young would-be writer and her much-older teacher and mentor.
Thoughtful and serious writing about the relationships between what we say and what people hear (or want to hear), how discourse can be twisted and distorted, and the literal and the reality.
Thoughtful and serious writing about the relationships between what we say and what people hear (or want to hear), how discourse can be twisted and distorted, and the literal and the reality.
Thanks for being a fellow traveler on the writing journey.