By Suzie Hansen, Founding Director
The following is an actual conversation that touched my heart and gave me pause. It made me realize how adults can be too logical and maybe, just maybe – perhaps some of us need to lighten up.
As my 6-year-old grandson carefully ate his chocolate coated ice cream bar on the deck last week, he proclaimed:
“My chocolate won’t melt.”
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Names have been withheld from this story to protect the innocent.
My Facebook memories reminded me on Oct. 6, that five years ago, Absolute Theatre opened its premiere production of FROST/NIXON, the first of an ambitious season of five plays.
Normally five shows wouldn’t be that ambitious for a theatre company, except we didn’t have a venue, among other things when we announced our first season at the Pool Party Launch at the home of Suzie and Mark Hansen on that glorious June evening in 2016.
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Absolute Board Member Patricia Barrier will be performing her original monologue “Hiding Behind” on Monday, Feb 1, 2021 along with 4 other selected writer/performers with Roland Tec’s Some1Speaking monologue program.
It will be on Zoom at 5 PM central time (yeah, we know - weird time - but they have people participating from all over the world - including New Zealand)
Info is at: www.hearmeoutmonologues.com (look under next up section) You must register there in advance on Eventbrite - tickets are $5. You will receive the Zoom link about two hours before the event.
"Even if you can’t attend the event, I suggest you check out this website and the work Roland Tec is doing," Patricia Barrier said. "I have been connected and writing with his group since May and it has been amazing!"
Patricia Barrier has been Absolute Theatre's advocate for area playwrights since she joined the board of directors. During the pandemic we have been doing readings of area playwrights. We had two virtual reading in January and are working toward another play by a local playwright in February. Watch the events on our Facebook page or this website for details.
Congratulations, Patricia!
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Christopher Smith, a longtime friend and supporter of Absolute Theatre, has a new play, The Violin Maker, that has been chosen for a live virtual reading on Monday, Dec. 7 at the New Works Playwriting Competition His play is one of the six finalists. Two of the six will be produced next year in Memphis. READ MORE.
BY SUZIE HANSEN
I have decided to share a recent musing. It contains zero logic whatever and has no basis in psychology let alone science – maybe even reality. But who knows? Maybe one day a paper will be written about it. No, I’m pretty sure it will remain relegated to the ‘ridiculous’ section in the file headed under: ‘just another of my little introspective ironies.’ I have lots of those – as anyone close to me would well know, and it is this: Read More
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