The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
"My lover is experiencing reverse evolution."
Adapted and directed by Bridgette Dunlap
from the book by Aimee Bender
Produced by The Ateh Theater Group
Walkerspace, October 2005
with Jeff Addiss, Cormac Bluestone, Ryan Canfield, Alexis Grausz, Kathryn Ekblad, Jeff Hughes, Madeleine Maby, Sara Montgomery, Elizabeth Neptune
set design by Amanda Rehbein and Emily French, lighting
design by Cris Dopher, costume design by Asta Bennie Hostetter, artwork
by Manny Silva
Drunken Mimi
"There was an imp that went to the high school with stilts on so
that no one would know he was an imp."
Legacy
"They placed her on a castle-bound train with a suitcase of wide-waisted
dresses and a thank you fern."
"Maybe some of our luck is going up."
"But the baby, she did turn out lucky."
The Healer
"In the Big City. Giving Speeches All Over. Love J."
"During science class that fall the fire girl would burn things."
"What happened was the fire girl met Roy. "
The Girl in
the Flammable Skirt
"I can't. I need to stay out here."
"But I didn’t have the heart attack, remember? That was you."
"What I keep wondering about is this: that first second when she
felt her skirt burning, what did she think?"
The talented cast handles the heavy lifting expertly. Their enthusiasm generates a soft hum of joyousness that pervades the production and rubs off on the audience.
- NYtheatre.com
Director and adaptor Bridgette Dunlap has fine sense of pacing and tone
and a knack for knockabout comedy.
- Hotreview.org
The cast is uniformly strong…Kathryn Ekblad's Fire Girl is a standout,
and she offers a fine, emotionally resonant performance.
- Offoffonline.com
An emotional hour and a half of participation in funny, sad, and disturbing
lives...Sara Montgomery is a standout!
- The Columbia Spectator
Elizabeth Neptune is delightful!
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