Email conversation with Baillie Players Founding Managing Executive Artistic Director/Owner/Performer Buren Martin, dated March 4, 2015: Me: Just saw the attached photo on your Facebook page. (Really good photo, by the way.) Are those all original materials? The arch, the flat, curtains, boxes, etc.? And if so, when did they first go out? I’m not sure which impresses […]
My friend Buren, the one who bought (for cash, as usual), renovated and now lives with his wife and two kids in the gymnasium where he played basketball as a child, just bought (for cash, as usual) the one-screen movie theater where he ran projector as a teenager. Of course he did. Why on Earth […]
The more-or-less first show I ever wrote is being performed at a retirement community in Greenville this August 15. It’s a variation on a 45-minute adaptation of The Ransom of Red Chief that I set to music in 1992 and called The Ransom. Its first incarnation was a school tour built around 4 professional actors who’d […]
