That's What She Said

I am thrilled to announce one of my plays will be produced this season in multiple theaters. 
 Anaconda Ensemble Theater in February.  Rocky Mountain College Theater Arts in Billings with dates as yet to be announced.
 

The play is titled, THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID. It is a short one act with five female characters.

 

The genesis of this one goes like this – 

 

A couple millennials I know were enamored for a while of that double entendre joke – that’s what she said.

 

It won’t fit.

 

            That’s what she said.

 

It’s too big.

 

            That’s what she said.  

 

Etc.

               

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It was all the rage at the time and by that I mean, annoying.

 

Since when I was their age we were still struggling to be heard,* I thought surely she has more to talk about than the size of someone’s dick and where it went or should go. So, I decided to see what else she had to say and spent an enjoyable few hours searching famous sayings by notable women and something else occurred to me.**

 

Sometimes, women don’t support other women. Whether this is an evolutionary artifact or social construct, who knows? Adding to that, the fact that each generation seems to look askance at every other generation and there we are. A big mess.

 

The 60s old hippie generation says – we stopped a war. We burned our bras and fought for reproductive freedom and equal pay, just so you girls can stroll into management positions.

 

The millennial generation says – put your bra back on grandma, you have no idea what the job market is like now or what we have to endure and what was that about reproductive freedom and equal pay?

 

They are both right.

Fast moving technological changes, pandemic losses, social upheaval and political unrest have created a world no one expected. And there’s still protests going on. #Timesup and #MeToo show it is still possible to move the needle on popular opinion and there’s a new generation doing just that.

 

But it might not hurt to acknowledge some of us stood across from police lines and got beaten bloody for our trouble or maybe just kept voting and writing and talking until we couldn’t help but be heard.

 

My daughter is committed to recycling. Once in a while I tell her, I was at the FIRST EARTH DAY and if it wasn’t for that, you wouldn’t be fussing at me about plastic water bottles now.

 

So I wrote a play with generations of smart, brave women watching over my shoulder and now she’s going to town.

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Told through the words of women of renown, THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID is a one act play that moves female discourse from a double entendre joke to multi-generational discussion on what it means to be female in America when much of the country wants her to sit down and shush.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*has anything changed? Alas.

**the very best bit of being a writer, when the muse stoops to whisper – here’s a story.