SOLOs Episode 6: Sense and Nonsense
“Sense and Nonsense” is of a series of monologues that take aim at the destructive nonsense of gender/role stereotypes interweaved with the whimsical nonsense of Lewis Carroll’s poems.
- (0:34) Anneli Curnock performs “The Creature Speaks” from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The creature confronts Frankenstein demanding that he create another creature to end the torture of being totally shunned and alone.
- Jenny Holan performs interludes of Lewis Carroll’s poetry.
- (6:05) “The Walrus and the Carpenter”,
- (22:57)“Father William”,
- (32:52),“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat”
- (41:54),“Jabberwocky”
- (11:24) Cyndi Cain Fitzgerald’s “Aphra Behn: A Woman of Ideas” introduces this powerful 17th century playwright, poet, translator, and author who was denied her rightful place in literary history because she was a woman. Directed by Jessica Gelter.
- (23:35) In “Elinor” , written and directed by Vermont playwright, Michael Nethercott, Cassandra Holloway portrays a stoic wartime nurse who felt she had to hold her feelings inside herself in order to care for severely injured soldiers.
- (33:17) Ian Hefele, in “Who’s the Mom?” by Sadie Portman, struggles to maintain his sanity living “24×7” with his husband and their children. He rails about those who treat him as their “token gay friend” and those who demand to know which of his children’s two fathers is the “mom.”
SOLOs is a co-production of the Hooker-Dunham Theater and the Rock River Players. Contributions to the SOLOs project are gratefully accepted via the Rock River Players' website (RockRiverPlayers.org)
