G.L.Horton's Stage Page

One more weekend until the end of the ICWP celebration - I can celebrate for myself next month. This week we have:

This Week in Boston/On the Aisle

Katie Curley reading F.E.'s monolog from Conventional Behavior

G.L. talking about getting permission to do her work.

Anabel Graetz reading a Minute Mouth-Off

and

ME, asking more questions.

We have two monologues and a short one-act this week. Katie Curley starts off with Maria, from Under Siege, followed by Perry Persoff reading The Blooming Cycles followed by the two of them reading And The Lion Shall Lie Down With .... And, of course, there's the weekly roundup of what's worth seeing in Boston.

Today we offer three readers. Anabel Graetz has been with us before, she reads a Mouth-Off about possible economic collapse. Katie Curley has also been with us before. This time she has our Featured one-act ... In the Livery of the Immortals. Perry Persoff is here for the first time. He has a background in radio and sound production, with on-air stints locally at WXRV "The River" and WZLX. He also does voiceover work, being especially fond of character voices and dialects. Originally from California, Perry has lived in Boston since 1997. But he's been a Red Sox fan for longer, so feel free to send him tickets... That said, he wanted to give Greg's Ghost Story from Cast Spell a shot, and I wanted to hear another version of it - we both got our wishes.

I got to write the calendar today, Will had the flu. He's still posting his reviews at On the Aisle, so visit him there.

Last week we celebrated Geralyn as a playwright, reading three pieces from her play, The Prophet Freeman. This week we are celebrating her organizational skills. She has spent much of the past month and change working to insure that the International Centre for Women Playwrights celebration, starting next week, is a success. We won't talk about it next week, or the week after ... bad form, and all that ... don't you know? ;)

G.L. will post notes to her web site StagePage.Info ... IF the reviews are great. Else ...

We had Katie Curley over yesterday. She and Geralyn book-ended the long monologue read by Anonymous and snail-mailed to us on a CD. She also read a monologue from Conventional Behavior and a couple of minute-mouth-offs ... What an afternoon! Katie had to scoot, something about James and the Giant Peach opening next week at the Stadium Theatre in Woonsocket, R.I., she's playing a ... spider? The role Susan Sarandon had in the movie? I guess if it's a big enough part for Susan, it could offer Katie room to stretch. We hope to have her back before Hollywood calls.

You can get a broader taste of the script for "Prophet" here, the whole script is available from the author - leave a comment with contact details.

This week we feature a reading of the short play In The Dark - "Two people who have been very close go on retreat at a New Age summer camp and come to a crossroads in their relationship."

We also have our This Week in Boston clip, thanks to Will Stackman and a special message from G.L. to a young man nice enough to ask to use some of her shorter plays.

This week G.L. interviews fellow Boston playwright, Kelly Dumar. Kelly had just finished taping her play "Bloom" at the Newton Community Access TV station and the interview is to be a companion piece for that show. We also have our weekly line-up of shows in and around Boston.

We are looking for actors to record some of G.L.'s ten minute plays. Should you know of anyone who will be in the Boston area and who might be interested, contact G.L.Horton at Mindspring dot com.

Another monologue read by Lois, a discussion of the high barriers to entry for new plays, and an update on what's playing in and around Boston this week.

We attended the Arisia Science Fiction Convention in Boston this weekend. Great time, much to discuss, much to learn, much to catch up on, much networking to accomplish. We networked our way to several contacts and at least one interview of interest. A hallway in the middle of an active convention hotel is not a good place to attempt to record something, and I might have done better. But ... then we came home and watched the Patriots barely manage to win their game with the Chargers. It was a good weekend.

Welcome to our first show of the New Year. It's 2007 and things seem to be starting out on the right foot. Geralyn performed Martha Mitchell, in mostly her own words at our local church and was greeted by SRO crowds! And they laughed in the right places and asked intelligent questions afterwards! Geralyn spoke with Larry Stark afterwards, about the play, the personality, the times, and related topics. You can contact him at Larry @ TheaterMirror . com ... he welcomes reviews he can post to his web site.