![]() ![]() That conversation above was with the very insightful Rob West, Artistic Director at the time, who said, “I believe in you” and lit a spark for me to put pen to paper for something I’d always wanted to do. My adaptation was one of the first that wasn’t a one-woman show but a full-blown play with characters. In March of 2003, we opened The Yellow Wallpaper an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novella written and directed by me, at Theatre Schmeater in Seattle, WA - a theater that I both acted and directed in for what some call the heyday of Seattle Fringe Theatre in the early 2000’s. ![]() “Yes, pick one, you have eight months, and you can direct it.” “Well, why don’t you and I’ll put it in the season.” “I’ve always wanted to write adaptations of the Aristophanes play Lysistrata and a short feminist novella that I read in college.” “Well, what plays have you always wanted to do?” Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relations Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution “to free an entire half of humanity from an artificial position to release vast natural forces from a strained and clumsy combination, and set them free to work smoothly and easily as they were intended to work to introduce conditions that will change humanity from within, making for better motherhood and fatherhood, better babyhood and childhood, better food, better homes, better society, this is to work for human improvement along natural lines.” ![]()
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