At the Bath House Cultural Center
White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas
January 14 - 30, 1999
Directed by Pam Myers-Morgan
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Featuring
Linda Comess, Linda Marie Ford, Joanna Schellenberg and Kelly Thomas
Why We Have A Body won four San Francisco Dramalogue Awards, the Bay Area Critic's Circle Award for original script, and Newsday's George Oppenheimer Award, presented annually for the most impressive debut of an American playwright.
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Two young women, Lili and her emotionally troubled sister, Mary, ache for the return of their lost mother, Eleanor, who left home years ago to "get lost." In a collage of scenes the two sisters and their mother, and Lili's new lover, Renee, speak alternately to us and to each other as they try to live with absence, with great distance. Mary neatly solves the problem of distance by sending telepathic letters to her mother, alas not a possible solution for her sane sister. The vast spaces that separate us from our past, from the ones we love, and from knowing ourselves constitute the landscape of Why We Have a Body.
(From Liz Diamond's introduction to Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993, Smith and Kraus, Inc.) |
Assistant Director: Ellen Locy
Stage Management: Michael Starcher
Set and Light Design: David Fisher
Costume Design: Paul Wackym
Props: Bonny Henley
Sound Design: Robert Myers-Morgan
