Today is the second-to-last performance. I won’t pretend that I’m not sad. It was a very short run, and I’m not sure that we reached as many people as we wanted to reach. At the same time, the audiences have been pretty good, and the impact has been clear.
This week, Kendra Fry, a friend and former general manager of Cahoots Theatre Projects came to the show. She was general manager when my play was being developed, and Madness was the last show that she programmed with current Artistic Director Jovanni Sy. Jovanni is stepping down in September to pursue his own artistic projects, so dinner all together was a bit nostalgic of our days as a trio in the office. (I started in 2006.) We tackled some big, big mountains that we had no right to even try and tackle as such a small company, but we did. We did so, because we didn’t like the word, “no”. It just didn’t suit our personality. The magnitude of the wonderfully complex and beautiful technical side of our Madness production is a result of that spirit. In any case, a fitting culmination from their years as leader of Cahoots. So, thank you both, Kendra and Jovanni.
Marjorie, Kendra and Jovanni, fresh-faced in 2006
