Author name: Marie Bonfils

Scientific/Military/Industrial/Academic Complex

The press release called A MOUSE WHO KNOWS ME, a science fiction musical comedy; however, I would call it a satire on the scientific/military/industrial/ academic complex. It is also one of the wittiest, funniest and most topical musicals I have ever seen.

I’ll be damned if I am going to feel sorry for any guy who is about to sleep with me.

Produced by Local Jewel, an excellent production of BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE is running at Theatre 4 in the Center House Armory at Seattle Center. Written by Leonard Gershe in the 1960’s, this production was set in 1972, an era before gay rights, disability rights and before the concepts of “enabling” and “control-freak” had entered main-stream society.

“I’ll be damned if I am going to feel sorry for someone who is about to sleep with me.”

Produced by Local Jewel, an excellent production of BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE is running at Theatre 4 in the Center House Armory at Seattle Center. Written by Leonard Gersche in the 1960’s, this production was set in 1972, an era before gay rights, disability rights and before the concepts of “enabling” and “control-freak” had entered main-stream society.

Truman to Nixon

Driving Miss Daisy, originally a Pulitzer Prize winning stage-play by Alfred Uhry, recounts the 25-year relationship ( from 1948-1973) between two outsiders in the South, specifically Atlanta. Boolie, the son of Miss Daisy, or Mrs. Werthan, a wealthy, but frugal, Jewish widow living inAtlanta, insists on hiring a chauffeur for her. Hoke is an an amiable, astute African American widower with young grandchildren. But the decision to hire Hoke is over Miss Daisy’s metaphorical dead body.

To Suicide or not to Suicide, that is the Question

River Ice, an original script written by Scott Timmons, takes place in a church crypt in Prague after the assassination of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, governor of Bohemia and Moravia ( Czechoslovakia), during World War.

Sound Theatre Company’s latest production is Tony Kushner’s “The Illusion.” Adapted from the 17th century French playwright, Pierre Corneille’s “L’Illusion

Sell me an Indulgence

“I’m becoming Catholic” is the idiom in Hamburg (a Northern German Protestant City) for “I’m going crazy”. The Abdication by Ruth Wolff reminded me of this idiom. A play about self-reflection, it is framed in a Vatican examination as to whether Christina, the Protestant former Queen of Sweden, no stranger to craziness herself, should be officially received into the Roman Catholic Church.