Bell Book & Scandal

I began by writing plays or I as prefer to call them, performance texts. I had the good fortune to work with directors and actors who understood and supported my work, sparing me the complete loss of control writers often experience with writing for performance (live or recorded). Even better on a few occasions I was able to direct my own work and on the rarest occasions perform the work as well. And still I could not control what the writing became in the performance and had to muster cast and crew and props and sets to bring the work to an audience. And so I stopped writing performance texts and began writing stories. In these stories I try to create something dynamics of performance writing by appealing to a broader array of senses and sensibilities.

Until recently I have used the language of the stories as the sole tool to create this effect. In Bell Book & Scandal now showing at Marjorie Wood Gallery I've added pictures. In this case the language is simpler and the story depends upon the presence of the images for its complexity. Please check it out.