http://www.salliebingham.com/index.cfm Personal website of feminist author, poet and playwright Sallie Bingham en-us Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:40:35 -0700 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:11:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss webmessage@salliebingham.com webmessage@salliebingham.com http://www.salliebingham.com/index.cfm/2008/1/22/MILK-OF-PARADISE MILK OF PARADISE: two-act play produced by the Women's Project and Productions in New York City, Julia Miles, Artistic director; published in "Playwriting Women: 7 Plays from the Women's Project", with authors' introductions, Heinemann, 325 pages, $17.95 paperback. Scene: a large house in the south. The single set includes both interior and exterior spaces. Time: two days in June 1937. Cast: nine: a boy and a girl, two adult males, five adult females, three of them black. From the author's introduction: The light that shines over and through this play is the same benign late winter light that shone in the little study in the new suburb where I wrote it, in a brief, happy, three-week period. I was newly returned to Kentucky, the state of my birth. Going home meant going back to memories buried for forty years; it also meant a new love affair with the life of the imagination, without which a play about childhood could never be written. For nothing, of course, "happened" in my life as it happens in this play. Characters and events were transformed through that act of imagination that makes the past simple and bright as in fact it never was, or could be. Plays Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:11:00 -0700 http://www.salliebingham.com/index.cfm/2008/1/22/MILK-OF-PARADISE http://www.salliebingham.com/index.cfm/2008/1/22/THROWAWAY THROWAWAY: one act play (subsequently expanded to full length), published in "Rowing to America and Sixteen Other Short Plays," published by the Women's Project and Productions in new York, edited by Julia Miles, with authors' notes. Smith& Kraus, 309 pages, $19.95. Scene: a bedroom and a porch. Time: the present Characters: Four women, five men. From the author's note: my aim as a playwright is the slightly sheepish laugh that proves a connection between the audience and what is happening on the stage. I believe people learn, and understand, more when they are laughing. I write here about twisted-up families and wandering single people, all set in the odd context of a world gone mad. Plays Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:11:00 -0700 http://www.salliebingham.com/index.cfm/2008/1/22/THROWAWAY