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This week we feature an interview G.L. recorded with Boston theater activist and fellow playwright Kate Snodgrass, a reading by Jeremy Cook-Williams, and the theater news for the Boston area for the coming week.

I don't know how many ways to say this, but We Want Feedback ! Comments, suggestions, disagreements, readings of G.L.'s monologues, requests to do her plays ... please send any or all to G.L.Horton at Mindspring dot com and we'll be happy to respond.

Nothing fancy, today. Just a quick over-view the the coming attractions.

This week we bring you our fifth edition of Arts Salon: Boston. This week G.L. hosts Jonathan Myers and Will Stackman for a discussion of the state of new theater in Boston today. We also have a monolog read by John M. Costa and a quick rundown of the shows you can catch this week in the Boston area. Please send any comments or suggestions to G.L.Horton (at)Mindspring (dot) Com.

May your holidays be joyful.

With this, the third and final show dedicated to G.L.'s interview at OSU, we have a role reversal - the Playwright interviews the Interviewer. We also have some after-thoughts. Mixed in with this we have three short monologues.

While we appreciate the fact you are listening, we'd also love to hear from you. Comments? Suggestions? Your own recordings of G.L.'s monologues? Stories about your use of her monologues in class or for auditions? Send them all to G.L.Horton@MindSpring.Com - we'll both be glad you did.

In this, the second part of the interview at OSU, G.L. discusses the state of feminism in "The Colonies" in the 1700s. More importantly, why this came about. She also discuses her use of music - historically "almost correct" music - in this historical play. Walter Graham book-ends the interview with readings of two of G.L.'s mouth-offs.

The purpose of G.L.'s return to OSU was to be interviewed by one of Professor Alan Woods' students. This interview was recorded an a portion of it is presented here. We also have a short scene from the play that they are discussing - Boston's Brothers in Liberty. Our thanks to Walter Graham for his assistance in his reading of the role of Reverend Dillon.

Theater folk feel the love when people gush over them a bit, when the audience applauds or when folks they respect invite them to appear with them in public - a talk show, a political rally or a classroom at a respected university. G.L. spent part of the week visiting OSU after one such invitation.

The reason for this invitation - Boston's Brothers in Liberty - will be added to her web site in the near future ... Stay Tuned.

Yesterday our discussion, over a spicy holiday herbal tea for some and a smooth single-malt for others, came around to the "identity" of Boston's "theater". Or, perhaps, its LACK of identity. Larry Stark, of the Theater Mirror, Geralyn Horton of Stage Page, and Will Stackman of - among other credits - the Puppet Showplace, presented their views.

We're still waiting for people willing to read G.L.'s monologs and send us the recordings.

We didn't accomplish much, this week. We suffered a minor tragedy, instead. Geralyn's darling Alice, recently diagnosed with Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Alice passed away last Monday and was laid to rest beside a plum tree in our garden.

We have one monologue for you, this week. Local actor, composer and painter Robert Bonatto reads one of G.L.'s One Minute Mouth-Offs for us.

This week we offer a short play in one act, One Fiery Leaf, with Lida McGurr playing the daughter and Geralyn Horton playing the mother. One Fiery Leaf can be staged alone or paired with another short play in one act, Autumn Leaves. We recorded this last year, before the start of our pod cast.