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Episode 35: Silhouettes

Bonnie Resinski was part of the creative force at the theatre at St. Francis University for 46 years, and a huge influence on my life.  In her spare time, she created an amazing one-woman show that chronicles 100 years of women’s fashion.  In this episode, she speaks about how fashion is a mix of style, technology, economics, and values. Bonnie makes a solid case for not wearing polyester  no matter how low the price of oil goes.  We also pause to do research and feed a cat.  I reveal why I can’t act while wearing Fruit of the Loom boxer-briefs, and we determine that perhaps the best copy of Dickens’ Christmas Carol would be bound in human skin.

There will be a booking email for Silhouettes posted on here soon, and somehow I don’t think anyone swears.  Not 100% on that though.

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Episode 16: For the Love of Extreme Personalities.

Happy New Year Everybody!  It’s was an odd end of 2013 and sad beginning of 2014.  In episode 14, Lori Howsare and I spoke about some of what it meant to do theatre.  Unfortunately, our theatre director, Mr. Kenny Resinski, who we spoke of warmly in that episode, passed away in December.  Lori came back not to do a sappy tribute show, but to explore an uncanny way Mr. Resinski changed our lives in a way that a few other people could, by teaching us to accept and admire extreme personalities.

Lori is a performance artist in Pittsburgh.  She has a blog called Muse Inspired Madness, which she sometimes types words into.  She also will be performing as part of The Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, as well as their kick off party, which will be on Thursday, January 16th.

Light swearing as usual.

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Episode 14: When the Circus Leaves Town

Don’t call it a comeback . . . For this episode we speak to Lori Howsare.  Lori’s been doing theater for forever, and in this episode we talk about some of the unique temporary communities that seem to pop up when doing shows.

Check out Lori’s blog MUSEinspiredMADnesS for her random thoughts and performance schedule.

We talk about the bad old days, ebola, and why Brigadoon might just be the scariest show anyone can do.  Also, Lori has the best answer so far for the “bad porno plot” question on the bottom 5.

As always, we swear.

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