Palpable Hits!

An enthusiastic audience of about 40 people watched the Limbo Plays readings at Ohio State on Friday, January 25th--coincidently the name day of St. Gregory of Nazantius, and also of St. Tatyana of Russia (which performer Tatyana Yassenov let us know; a professional actress in her native Belarus, she emigrated to Columbus (which has given theatregoers reason to celebrate for the last dozen or so years!). I'm grateful to Nancy Gall-Clayton for the photographs she so kindly took, and even more graciously made available!

The Limbo Plays at this readings were:

Kathy Burkman, Columbus, Ohio: E-Mails from the Dead
read by Frank Barnhart as Hector
Maureen Brady Johnson, Oberlin, Ohio: Limbo
read by John Kuhn as Tom, Cate Blair-Wilhelm as Augusta, and Tatyana Yassenov as God
Nancy Gall-Clayton, Louisville, Kentucky: Terminal L
read by John Kuhn as Lush Limbaugh, Frank Barnhart as Lowell Lunyon, Cate Blair-Wilhelm as Linda Lindell, Tatyana Yassenov as the Fairy Godmother, and Alan Woods as Luigi Lyons.
John Kuhn, Columbus, Ohio: The Edge
read by Cate Blair-Wilhelm as Mary, Tatyana Yassenov as Ruth
and my own Limbo, Ohio
read by John Kuhn as Willy Loman, Cate Blair-Wilhelm as Jocasta, and Tatyana Yassenov as Cleopatra.



The New Works Lab at Ohio State's Drake Performance and Event Center, waiting for the readings to start.



Alan Woods (standing, right) introduces the readings. Readers (left to right) Frank Barnhart, John Kuhn, and Cate Blair-Wilhelm. Unhappily, accomplished performer Tatyana Yassenov is not visible.



Playwrights together! Kathy Burkman (Columbus), Nancy Gall-Clayton (Louisville), Carol Dale (Columbus) gather and schmooze



after the readings; Frank Barnhart, closest to camera on left, farther back John Kuhn, both enjoy cookies brought by Nancy Gall-Clayton. At back: Alan Woods, then more center, Cate Blair-Wilhelm, talk with audience members