Lois and Thatcher
My last consulting job was at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, June 2004.
During this site visit, when I wasn't consulting I was gathering material or writing. After a
great deal of rewriting, seven pieces emerged that seemed to form a coherent evening:
The Middletown Etudes. Why "etudes"? In each piece I was trying to meet a different
set of technical challenges. Lois and Thatcher (originally titled Oh Dear!) is one of
several two-character pieces, written between 2004 and the present, that are set in the
Chestnut Hill Apartments . The apartments are one above the other. The sets are
virtually identical: a love seat and a few occasional pieces. Only the details (e.g. pictures
on the walls) indicate different residents. In Lois and Thatcher, I was playing with
physical stasis: two seventy-somethings skirmishing on a love seat.
To the play.