Re: RAT Re: Seven Dramaturgs/CrisJ

[john Bentz <bentzsj@juno.com>]

Cris-

Must you bring up fresh bread from the hand of the benificent Betty Jane? 
It is from the hospitality of her house that the pattern for the welcoming
theater was set for me.

Jack

------Original Message------
From: "Megan Monaghan" <meganmonaghan@email.msn.com>
To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
Sent: August 1, 2000 11:55:55 PM GMT
Subject: Re: RAT Re: Seven Dramaturgs


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
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