September 27, 2012
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The River Bride is Ready
It’s been a little quiet here on the blogging front. Meaning, my blogging hasn’t been as regular as usual. Well, it’s been plenty stressful at the 9 to 5 job (and it’s not about to let up any time soon), on top of which I have lots of irons in the old theatre fire.
Needless to say I’m sure you’ve gleaned from recent posts a slightly overwhelmed feeling/theme running through them. In fact, about two weeks ago I fell completely off the face of the world and landed on my futon where I didn’t move for about three or so days. I needed that down time.
Okay, enough preface.
I’m back. And I’m trying to refocus my energies on a few things: 1) rewrites and writing (two very separate endeavors, but I’m putting them here together); and 2) getting The River Bride out there.
That’s right. The River Bride is ready to send out into the world. It’s my first play in a cycle of what I’m calling Grimm Latino Fairy Tales and per my dramaturg possibly her favorite play of all I’ve written.
What’s it about? Well, en lieu of a synopsis here’s a poem I wrote when the play was just an idea first taking root in my mind.
photos liek this one by Toni Frissell were an early inspiration for me
Prelude to The River Bride
for Kathy RobertsIn the Amazon time stands still, as if this river wrapped its long body around it and contracted. The only time here is once, once upon a time somewhere between dream, between myth, between the shores of reality and folklore.
Like all the old ones this fairy tale will end in tears, tears spilling off the edge of a pier. It will end with two sisters, one constrained to land and one to the Amazon’s timeless embrace. Two sisters, two sisters and a man fished from June waters just three days before a wedding.
Reflecting on it now it makes sense that this poem came first, considering that the play is lush with poetic language. And if that poem isn’t enough for your inquiring mind, you can learn more about The River Bride here.Where am I sending it? Well, I do have a few people/theatres in mind, but am always open to recommendations.
-M
