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
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?
