Primus for Prima Playwright Tory
Sounds like today was a productive workday for all. The actors for Dan and Mia’s piece drove down from Providence to work on Kill the Keepers; they’re going to be in the play when Perishable Theatre presents a full production at the end of August. (Krista and I are going to try to drive up to
see it and a few other pieces that I think are playing in rep.) Ken and Krista once again spent the day in the library; they headed off to Sterling at 8:30 AM. I’m so impressed – although their early-morning writing sessions in the library remind me of getting up early to go to the library during finals week. When we met up with K+K at dinner, they were in some kind of Writer’s Trance. We tried to revive them at dinner with pitchers of sangria and Mexican food and toasted Tory who just learned that she received the the Francesca Primus Award for her play Hard-Ball. The award is given out once a year to a play by an emerging female playwright; clearly, they have very good taste. We later joined Mia, Dan and two of their actors at Sullivan’s, a pub that used to be called “Cavenaugh’s” and that used to be a favorite Yale School of Drama hangout. (Because their rehearsal ran late, Mia and Dan missed out on the sangria.) I was hoping to bring the gang to Mory’s tonight but it’s open only for lunch during the summer – and I can’t bring myself to have a cup of grain alcohol in the afternoon.
