Tonight we went to see our friend Cynthia Whalen in the play Just Cause at the Flea Theatre in Tribeca. Proud parents of cast members seated behind told their friends “This is a very important theater.”
The energy and intensity of the young actors reminded me so much of Annex Theatre in Seattle where The Husband and I met and got together while working on Bliss Kolb and Brian Faker’s The Yellow Kid in which title role was played by Seanjohn Walsh, who was in The Compound with Cynthia. I, a clown, and Seanjohn, a performance artist, played “normal people” in a production of Beyond Therapy, the first show I did after moving to Seattle, in the same role originated Off-Broadway by Sigourney Weaver, the wife of the artistic director of The Flea where I saw Dick Monday, Tiffany Reilley and Hillary Chaplin in Clown Brain not long after we moved to New York. So how does that score in the six-degrees-of-separation game?