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This past Saturday, while in the North Hollywood Arts District, Gracie and I saw a big dressing room van parked outside the Avery Shrieber theater. Turned out the dressing rooms were containing three actresses, each who were doing very intimate theatre. Gracie and I mounted the steps into the dressing room of actress PAT PAYNE. Her presentation was called MY OWN PERSONAL WEATHER SYSTEM.
I've never experienced anything like it, it was very out of the box creative, art, performance art, and theater all at the same time, and I want you to know that there will be more performances in Sherman Oaks this coming Saturday June 23, 2013 at 14209 Ventura Blvd. Sherman Oaks CA 91403 next to Guitar Center. (I believe that if you have the time you can see all three performances. These will be by men.)
PAY PAYNE had her dressing room hot and wore a bright pink see through plastic dress - she's in a unitard underneath. She wanted you to feel hot too because her act was a bit of performance art as well as artistic installation about menopause. She created a wall of prescription bottles hanging on clear thread like a room divider, had a table of speculums representing all the gynecological exams she had in her life, and had on display a contruction of her pre-menopause perky breasts in their own theater. Using one of the clear plastic speculums in hand she went to an installation of her eggs, of which one was viable.
Since feedback was more than welcome, we had a woman to woman talk, which I included Gracie, my dog, in. Gracie sat on my lap smiling the whole time. You see she is spayed so in dog menopause. I was telling Pat how people have talked to me about adopting a dog, especially if they have figured it out that I'm childless by choice myself.
People have said things to me like,"Why don't you adopt a child?" They assume that because Gracie is cute small and fluffy that she is not just well cared for but SPOILED. (So what if Gracie thinks my name is Mummie?)
The best thing is that I left feeling I had made a (rare) connection with another human being!
So check out the web site for NEW TOWN ARTS ORG and head over to Sherman Oaks next Saturnday!
