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    • Macbeth - Richmond Shakespeare Festival
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Swimming with Van Gogh
Chosen for the Arkansas New Play Festival in 2013 - directed by Kevin Fox

About:

A play about sex and boundaries in love and art.  What and where are the limits of the creative spirit?  Set in a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan, Claire, a mid-career painter fights being pigeonholed as a “woman’s perspective painter” – Georgia O’Keefe’s complaint her entire career.  At  odds with this goal of breaking sexual category -- is the main character’s struggle with her own dwindling sexual appeal.  Her male counter-part is sleeping with a 26-year-old.  Invisible to the world as a woman of a certain age – she connects only with her 24 year old student – “a walking ad for…well…something illegal.”  Juan Villa (fellow playwright/actor) commented that he never sees sexy plays anymore and this one is the longest fore-play he’d ever seen.  Thus the paradox of the piece – a play about trying to break sexual definition – is by its very nature – a sexy discussion.

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