You could feel it build as the women performed. Audiences got transported to this strange club, suspended in disbelief, rooting for everybody to survive. But when the character Secret, written in homage to my late friend Sigrid, did her monologue, people realized they weren’t going to get a happy ending.
Category Archives: Personal
One Last Time
“club termina” gave me the chance to bring my lost friend back onstage for two hours a night. I needed that medicine—because we had both expected to survive, and that’s not what happened.
From Terror to club termina
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And as a survivor, I have a lot to say about it.
When the Doctor Calls on Yom Kippur
Doctors don’t give good news in person on the eve of Yom Kippur. I was really scared.
Mapping the Road Not Taken: Do You Want a Do-Over?
I want a Do Over. I want to stand at the doorway to Time and Space and get to decide what will help my fellow humans, and what will destroy them. So far, I have not been invited to do this. But that doesn’t stop me from dreaming.
The Power of Telling Stories By, For, and About Women
I am a storyteller. At six years old I told stories that took my character deep into a cave where she discovered walls of colorful jewels and cavernous rooms filled with weird creatures.
