Play in a Pocket

a simple show still needs sketches.

My mom made this little fabric folder. Were you alive in the 1980’s? Were you alive enough to remember those chintzesque waxed cottons? Those fake moirés? Rarely does an item date itself so well.

I wonder what she intended this for? It is not the right dimensions for a checkbook, or a billfold - I have those 1980’s items she made, too. Whatever she meant it for, I clearly saw it and decided that it was my mini-show portfolio.

I found these pages inside:

That was a one-man show, that, like most one man shows I have seen, was an autobiography. I remember mostly that performer/writer’s father was a mail man that didn’t talk to his son much. And the performer/writer had a dance moment at the end of the piece in which he mimes getting shot. He does this so well that it is worth the price of admission. A dance move and a realistic imitation of life all at once. I was sitting with 2 directors that cast him in shows immediately…as the guy who gets shot.

(The cartoon and illustration professor…