While Hard Sparks is in the thick of producing Nicole Pandolfo's one-woman show Love In The Time Of Chlamydia for FRIGID NYC, I thought I'd take a minute to look at our sister act in the festival, I Married A Nun. Writer-performer D'yan Forest has been gracing stages around the world for seven decades. Her one-woman show depicts her own search for love and meaning in life, and how, with humor, art, and her ukelele, she found the answers - at age 77 - in the smoldering cabarets and demimonde of Paris. I can't wait to check it out! -JSB
1.Why must I Married A Nun be seen to be believed? My experiences have been post-modern transformations of sexuality. From experiences with a nun for 25 years to adventures abroad for decades, unusual travels and a message thru all this for people of all sexes and ages...make this a very unusual surprising evening!
2.What theatrical experience has really rocked your world? When I was 7 years old , my parents took me to the pre-Broadway opening of Oklahoma in Boston. I was wowed and so impressed that I knew then what I wanted to do in life. I danced and sang in front of the mirror in our living room for months afterwards.
3.When people ask if I consider myself more a playwright or an actor, I always respond with “Yes.” What’s your answer? I consider myself an actor first, as it has been my vocation for decades. Writing just began a year ago!
4.A big-budget Broadway musical based on the story of yourlife is in production. Sadly, the producers of D’yan! do not see you as enough of a draw to play the titular role. Which Hollywood A-lister gets the job? Carol Burnett is my choice, as I think she's just as crazy as I am.
5.What’s your favorite charitable cause or philanthropic organization? Why should everyone reading this rally round their flag? PETA! (Oh dear, I do wear fur coats. I've got 5 of them!)
6.You play 5 instruments and have performed in 9 languages. So what’s the one thing you still really want to do onstage? Sing, dance and shock and educate people thru all my adventures. No matter what age you are--L'amour n'a pas d'age: Love has no age and no bounderies.
7.How is life better at 77? Same shit, different day, and more of it.
I Married A Nun, written and performed by D'yan Forest and directed by Stephen Jobes, plays the FRIGID festival Wednesday, February 22 at 9:00 pm, Thursday, February 23 at 6:00 pm, Sunday, February 26 at 1:00 pm, Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 pm, and Saturday, March 3 at 8:30 pm. All performances take place at UNDER St. Marks, 94 St Marks Place, basement level. (Between First Avenue & Avenue A) Tickets are $10 to $15 and can be purchased at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444.
1.Why must I Married A Nun be seen to be believed? My experiences have been post-modern transformations of sexuality. From experiences with a nun for 25 years to adventures abroad for decades, unusual travels and a message thru all this for people of all sexes and ages...make this a very unusual surprising evening!
2.What theatrical experience has really rocked your world? When I was 7 years old , my parents took me to the pre-Broadway opening of Oklahoma in Boston. I was wowed and so impressed that I knew then what I wanted to do in life. I danced and sang in front of the mirror in our living room for months afterwards.
3.When people ask if I consider myself more a playwright or an actor, I always respond with “Yes.” What’s your answer? I consider myself an actor first, as it has been my vocation for decades. Writing just began a year ago!
4.A big-budget Broadway musical based on the story of yourlife is in production. Sadly, the producers of D’yan! do not see you as enough of a draw to play the titular role. Which Hollywood A-lister gets the job? Carol Burnett is my choice, as I think she's just as crazy as I am.
5.What’s your favorite charitable cause or philanthropic organization? Why should everyone reading this rally round their flag? PETA! (Oh dear, I do wear fur coats. I've got 5 of them!)
6.You play 5 instruments and have performed in 9 languages. So what’s the one thing you still really want to do onstage? Sing, dance and shock and educate people thru all my adventures. No matter what age you are--L'amour n'a pas d'age: Love has no age and no bounderies.
7.How is life better at 77? Same shit, different day, and more of it.
I Married A Nun, written and performed by D'yan Forest and directed by Stephen Jobes, plays the FRIGID festival Wednesday, February 22 at 9:00 pm, Thursday, February 23 at 6:00 pm, Sunday, February 26 at 1:00 pm, Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 pm, and Saturday, March 3 at 8:30 pm. All performances take place at UNDER St. Marks, 94 St Marks Place, basement level. (Between First Avenue & Avenue A) Tickets are $10 to $15 and can be purchased at www.smarttix.com or by calling (212) 868-4444.
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