Tomorrow night, 7:30PM at the Carmel Community Playhouse, first-year MFA student, actress and theatre buff Elisabeth Giffin will take to the stage as part of Jane Martin‘s American Theatre Critics Association Award-winning play Talking With…. The play opens Thursday, October 17 but will run Thursday through Sunday (2:30PM matinee) this week and next.

Composed of eleven monologues delivered by a sundry cast of women including a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, and an ex-rodeo rider, Talking With… promises to “amuse, move and frighten.” Giffin opens the show with “15 Minutes” as Moira, an actress about to take the stage.

Because playwrights are in such short supply in our program, instead of my usual teaser I thought I’d ask Miss Giffin to share some insight into the genre and the monologue form. It turns out she’s basically a friendly encyclopedia. Read further if secret pseudonyms and a brief history of the monologue makes you salivate. Continue reading →

Tomorrow night, 7:30PM at the Carmel Community Playhouse, first-year MFA student, actress and theatre buff Elisabeth Giffin will take to the stage as part of Jane Martin‘s American Theatre Critics Association Award-winning play Talking With…. The play opens Thursday, October 17 but will run Thursday through Sunday (2:30PM matinee) this week and next.

Composed of eleven monologues delivered by a sundry cast of women including a baton twirler, a fundamentalist snake handler, and an ex-rodeo rider, Talking With… promises to “amuse, move and frighten.” Giffin opens the show with “15 Minutes” as Moira, an actress about to take the stage.

Because playwrights are in such short supply in our program, instead of my usual teaser I thought I’d ask Miss Giffin to share some insight into the genre and the monologue form. It turns out she’s basically a friendly encyclopedia. Read further if secret pseudonyms and a brief history of the monologue makes you salivate. Continue reading →