Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

Encountering Yellow

SO lots of news.
I am back in the country. Vacation is over.
Vincent’s Yellow is CAST.
Let me say that again and allow myself to celebrate one last time before the onslaught of everything else I have to do drowns out the sound.
I HAVE ACTORS! YIPPEEE!
It also looks like I have a co-choreographer, a props master, a [...]

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Mon, May 24 2010 » Personal, Theater piece, Travel » No Comments

Most honest update humanly possible from your writer of a play about Van Gogh

I am on the edge, the verge. There is one last great jump into the beyond before I get anywhere near the bottom… it is something akin to a diver meticulously diagnosing every current in a river leading into an enormous and exotic waterfall, every crag of rock that might tear into her if she [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Personal, Theater piece » 4 Comments

The Plan

This entry is about the plan for the play, Vincent’s Yellow. The Plan, like the play, like the book, has developed so naturally that it’s almost suspicious. Why suspicious? I never really feel like I’m planning. I just get ideas and they become plans. I’ll explain.
I’ve always thought my play about Vincent and I would [...]

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Mon, February 1 2010 » Personal » 2 Comments