NOTEPAD:
from the desk of the DIRECTOR It was a great relief that Barbara’s play was not about a group of former artists complaining about their old age and comparing medications, surgeries and bowel movements. We get enough of that in our real lives. Nor is it about how miserable it is to be an artist. I wish it were a great scholar, but I think it was producer David Merrick, who said that the public was not interested in hearing how miserable actors’ lives are/were because they seem to live lives of glamour and passion, unlike many in the audience. How pleasing, then, that it is a play about the artistic flame still burning and desire still aglow—for creation, for parenting, or for life. Just like Barbara.
GARY GISSELMAN Director, The Dwindles
THE DWINDLES BY BARBARA FIELD MONDAY, MARCH 1 • 7 P.M. • at the PLAYWRIGHTS’ CENTER
RUTH EASTON NEW PLAY SERIES
A year of free room and board, scintillating conversation, and compelling company at a renowned artists’ colony? Sounds too good to be true to Edward MacKenzie, a has-been artist whose career once was. He’s looking for inspiration, but what he discovers is a collection of temperamental artists—and a corpse. Along the way, he has a close encounter with his past and his future. Tickets are free: 612.332.7481 x10 • INFO@PWCENTER.ORG