Re: RAT Re: Seven Dramaturgs

["Megan Monaghan" <meganmonaghan@email.msn.com>]

Chris!  Be not lonely in Minneapolis!  Give me a call and we'll seek out
some Rat Sass.

Megan Monaghan
Playwrights' Center, but right now at PlayLabs -- 612-625-1399

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Jeffries <cjeffries1911@hotmail.com>
To: rat-list@ratconference.com <rat-list@ratconference.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:01 PM
Subject: RAT Re: Seven Dramaturgs


>
>Just got wind of the 7 Questions from my lonely outpost in Minneapolis and
>was finally able to retrieve the magnifical first instalment.  Potent stuff
>and way too much for poor off-to-rehearsal me to respond to yet, but I did
>need to insert a clarification.  The "epic idea" of the train piece,
>attributed to me by my pal Paul, is one I cannot claim.  The concept took
>flight in a conversation which, ironically, has been written up in
"American
>Theatre," which I suppose is not quite the one-minute CNN piece, but which
>can be looked up on our own RAT Page Archives (see "A Conference of Rats"
by
>Mary DeDanan under the 1995 Seattle Conference section).  It's in the first
>paragraph, if memory serves, but I must also hasten to correct (five years
>later) Mary's references to "old bread heels" and "the last of the butter."
>Anyone who has spent five minutes in Allison Narver's mom's house knows
full
>well that whole loaves of freshly baked bread and plenty of butter are
>eternally at hand.
>
>North Country RATs not overwhelmed by Playlabs may enjoy "Punch in
America,"
>a new musical in progress I supplied the songs for, playing this weekend as
>part of the Illusion Theatre's Fresh Ink series, Thu-Sun Aug 3-6.  Ten
>bucks.  Also check out venerable RAT Karl Gajdusek's SILVER LAKE at the
>Jungle.
>
>Yours,
>Chris Jeffries
>________________________________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>
>