Abby Paige
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Praise for “Piecework: When We Were French”
The Vermont tour of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, kicked off this weekend with four shows at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, one of the best regional theaters in the U.S. according to the New York Drama League and certainly one of my favorite places to perform. Audiences were enthusiastic and effusive…
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Kate Hall’s “The Certainty Dream”
Wittgenstein said, “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” This makes me suspect that philosophy and poetry are incompatible modes of inquiry, the former seeking to reveal the truths that language obscures, while the latter…does pretty much the same thing? Or something different entirely? Kate Hall plays with…
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‘Piecework’ Featured in Montpelier’s Times-Argus
In just three weeks, I’ll be performing my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, as part of Winterfest, a festival of three plays at Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. This article from The Times-Argus describes all three shows: Maura Campbell’s “Rosalee Was Here,” Martin Sherman’s “Rose” and my Franco-American portraits (one of which…
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Question of the Year
At the beginning of each new year, I eagerly anticipate an updated post from the World Question Center, a somewhat mysterious association of “scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world.” Each year, a new question is posed to a few dozen of the world’s biggest brains. In the past their answers have left me…
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Happy Holidays!
I tend to get words and phrases stuck in my head the way a little bit of music would probably get caught in the mind of a musician. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had a phrase from the Christmas carol “O Holy Night” echoing around in my head: the thrill of hope. May…
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Susan Holbrook’s “Joy Is So Exhausting”
Funny things can happen by accident — flatulence, Freudian slips, falls on errant banana peels — but jokes happen on purpose. Like poetry or music, jokes are composed, usually to provide pleasure, often a profound, unconscious pleasure that we might otherwise forbid ourselves. As Freud wrote in his abidingly unfunny treatise on the subject, “A…
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Announcing “Piecework” Spring Tour
My one-person show, “Piecework: When We Were French,” will tour to four Vermont towns just ahead of mud season! Thanks to the generous support of Burlington City Arts, I’m delighted to be headed to the following venues: Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, Vermont February 11, 12, 13 & 14 Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont March 5 Town…
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Reading in the West Island
I’m delighted to be reading with some of Montreal’s finest (and busiest) poets in December. Come hear some great work in the West Island! Here’s all the info: WIRE ( West Island Readers Electric) INVITES YOU FOR A WINTER WARM-UP Tuesday, December 8th – 7-9:30 pm Café Aurora, 552 Beaconsfield Blvd (south of Highway 20,…
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