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Because Beauty Must Be Broken Daily

directed by Brittney Brady

Ghostbird Theatre Company

Feburary 2014

Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center

Dana Lynn Raulerson as Alice

Katelyn Gravel as Sister

Hanny Zúñiga as Rock Woman

Jim Brock as Father

Katherine Myers as Old Man

Ginger Cyan Allen as Presence

Brittany Albury as Virginia Woolf

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ROCK WOMAN & SISTER

Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?

Was I sleeping, the sun? Was I sleeping, the sun, did she?

Was I sleeping, and did she, the sun, too near, too approximate?

Was I sleeping, and the sun burning, did she want?

Was I sleeping, while she preened and prepped, while she suffered herself unto another?

Was I sleeping, while she suffered and came to the surface?

Was I sleeping, while the sun ran close, ran off, ran away, ran wild?

Was I sleeping, while the sun skirted away, an animal gone feral, checking out, a bird flying the coop?

Was I sleeping, while her lover took her, becalmed her, became her, here?

Was I sleeping, here, her, here?

Was I sleeping, while here, her lover loved her as certain, dark things are to be loved?

Was I sleeping, while her lover drank rum with the soldiers on the damp ground, she broke their affair, leaving both to suffer?

Was I sleeping, while here, a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, that lives darkly in her body?

Was I sleeping, while here, she broke their affair, cast off her wings, and suffered to be plucked and cast and broken?

Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?

Was I Sleeping Katelyn Gravel, Hanny Zuniga, Phil Heubeck, Chris Ludvigsen
00:00 / 03:48
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