Emerald Isle: Difference between revisions

Sound of rain. Monologueby Joe: a meditation on Ireland, Dublin. Monologueby an actress with an Irish accent in the second person: She has found racy magazines in her dormer's room. She accidentally read his journal, found it was about her. She admits to having feelings for him. She sings Misty, is greeted with applause and thanks the band, starts on "That Old Black Magic" in a monotonic whisper. Joe: A magician sets his audience on fire; a volunteer is sawed in two and dies horribly; a magician is pulled into a hat by a disembodied hand. Ode to woman: high school cheerleader, business woman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess, prostitute, torch singer. Actors: the Irish singer calls her Agent to complain about her hotel, they argue. Joe delivers a second person monologue: you explore a run down hotel; a mental patient obsessively opens and closes a trunk; bathroom graffiti. The story of a maid; she knows the secrets of the inhabitants of the house she cleans. When she discovers that the family is planning to fire her, she leaves and becomes a blues singer. The Irish singer and her agent continue to argue. Joe monologue: one side of a stock conversation to accompany an illicit affair. The Irish singer talks about comforting men. Edie Brickell song, "Nothing."

Shares material with Clement at Christmas, Live at Market Street.