tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post4163104606949033240..comments2024-03-29T07:00:46.755-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): My Life at the Theater-I AM MY OWN WIFEpattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-10678458546146994112011-12-30T14:08:17.849-05:002011-12-30T14:08:17.849-05:00I've enjoyed every play I've ever seen. I ...I've enjoyed every play I've ever seen. I don't know why I don't go to more of them. I'm so much a homebody, I guess.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-51172409657295025432011-12-30T08:26:16.210-05:002011-12-30T08:26:16.210-05:00Patti - I've never seen this one. I'm not ...Patti - I've never seen this one. I'm not much of a one for one-person plays either, but this one sound really interesting and well-done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-50005820780433475132011-12-29T20:22:55.737-05:002011-12-29T20:22:55.737-05:00See, there's another show that we didn't s...See, there's another show that we didn't see. We don't see everything in New York, although some days it seems that way.<br /><br />Jackie agrees with you about one-person shows though we've seen a few that stand out over the years, including Roy Dotrice in John Aubrey's BRIEF LIVES in 1974 and Phyllis Newman's semi-autobiographical musical revue THE MADWOMAN OF CENTRAL PARK WEST in 1979. Oh, one more: Lily Tomlin's THE SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE in 1985.<br /><br />In the last five years, however, we seem to have seen a lot of them:<br /><br />Jake Ehrenreich's self-explanatory A JEW GROWS IN BROOKLYN<br />Nilaja Sun's NO CHILD...<br />Judy Gold's 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER and THE JUDY SHOW<br />Carrie Fisher's WISHFUL DRINKING<br />Colman Domingo's A BOY AND HIS SOUL<br />Charlayne Woodard's THE NIGHT WATCHER<br />Anna Deveare Smith's LET ME DOWN EASY (which will be on PBS in January), "doing" people with cancer<br />Yisrael Campbell's CIRCUMCISE ME<br />Jeff Key's THE EYES OF BABYLON (about his service in the Marines and coming out)<br /><br />This latter group shares one thing: they were all performed by their authors. (Also, all were worth seeing.)<br /><br />Sorry to go on so long.<br /><br />Jeff M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com