MOLLY IVINS - RED HOT PATRIOT

 

One of my favorite shows so far. Rhonda Brown portrays Molly Ivins, who Americans may know for her acerbic wit, fearless journalism and relentless skewering of politicians, particularly Republicans. She was an unashamed liberal in increasingly right-wing Texas, but worked for many news organizations. One of her funniest bits was about her obituary for Elvis Presley and covering his funeral in Memphis, falling in with a convivial biker convention, that got her fired from the New York Times. It’s worth looking at her biography, particularly the quotations from her work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins                

Drama

I've taken more than 5,000 pix over the first four days of The Fringe, with next weekend still to go. Lots of them are junk, of course, but there some gold nuggets amidst the gravel. This was taken yesterday and is the one that sticks with me the most. The play is called Pain by Tony Marr, Jr. It is about the lives of young black men and the huge barriers that face them, try as they may to do the right thing.

This scene was a drug deal gone bad. Toy gun, of course. So much more to edit. The festival resumes Thursday night.