All dressed up with nothin' to say

In the FemNoire festival of women's plays, performed in Lowell this past weekend, I had fun directing Debbie Roy's "And So it Goes". Two people mind their own business on a park bench while their alter egos rise up and get pretty wild. It's a short play that I can see going into the festival repertory all across the country.

My two bench-sitting actors (Rob Nason and Maria Bela Soares, below) each had one (ONE) line. But they had the great challenge of playing to the audience with slight sideways glances of the eyes, sighs, and judicious use of props (oh, that banana).

The (sold-out) audiences loved them. Sometimes saying a lot less allows for saying a lot more. Just sayin'.