Sunday, October 26, 2014

"Les Belles-Soeurs" -- Fifteen Squabbling Quebecoises

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After reading and enjoying Michel Tremblay's play Albertine, in Five Times , I decided I should read his most famous work for the stage,...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

"The Dryad of Suburbia" - staged reading Nov. 5

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2014 is my fourth year participating in the San Francisco Olympians Festival as a writer. My contribution this year is a 10-minute play, ...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Playwrights and their Gallbladders

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The lack of posts here on marissabidilla in 2014 doesn't mean that my life has suddenly become boring. Rather, it means that life has b...
Monday, October 13, 2014

"Albertine, in Five Times" -- A French-Canadian "Three Tall Women"

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Edward Albee's Three Tall Women has been on my mind this past week. Marian Seldes, who starred in its original production, passed away ...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

"Running Down a Dream" -- a Saturday Write Fever monologue

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I went to Saturday Write Fever last night for the first time in over a year and was given the prompt "Running down a dream." I wr...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Marian Seldes and the last of the grande dames

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When I took a course on Fairy Tales in college, we spent a class session performing scenes from Ondine , by Jean Giraudoux. I secretly hoped...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

"Kitchen Confidential" -- Tasty but Not Quite Fresh

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain My rating: 3 of 5 stars When "Kitchen Confidential...