ASPHALT JUNGLE

I'll be having two plays done in Kitchener, Ontario this September as part of the Asphalt Jungle Shorts Festival.

This incredibly cool site-specific event will take place all over the downtown area of Kitchener, with performances taking place in bars, on street corners, even a furniture store. The audience will bring their own chairs and keep moving them from site to site.

Two of my short plays are featured. My monologue BALANCING ACT, a Libra spilling offbeat secrets about her astrological sign, happens in the bar. It's a North American premiere -- its only other official production was in London.

The second is JUSTICE OF THE PEACE - where an unconventional middle-aged bride-to-be and her niece wait for the ceremony outside the JP's office in a municipal building. This will actually be staged in Kitchener's City Hall, very cool indeed.

The producer for Flush Ink, Paddy Gillard-Bentley, is the secretary of the International Centre for Women Playwrights, which is the cyberhome to many fine writers. True to form, there are many ICWP writers represented (although the scripts were blind-judged). Paddy is great -- we've worked together on ICWP web pages and tippled at more than one glass of wine outside our adjoining dorm rooms at the August, 2004 ICWP Writers' Retreat in Columbus (at Ohio State University).