Show 'V ' SsmUtUs ow o atttMtut v a New life behind YORK (AP)— As soon as Lisa Kron strides onstage she finds herself pulled into a polite bickering match with her mother over why she wrote her new play in The Associated Press Nl-- ’ Ignore the interruption Kron tells the audience Surely they understand this gray-haire- digression" “The added complication is that my mother is not entirely comfortable being a character in the play" says the Kron during an interview at Kudo Beans a busy coffee shop in her East Village neighborhood “I talked her through it and I’ve had to take responsibility for it being difficult” Midway into the play which runs without intermission the petite monologist delivers an engaging analysis on family health and the community at large That is until Ann (Jayne Houdyshell) abruptly orders Kron to “get out of that special ng lady is not a the- d ' ater person Blit who can resist eavesdropping on someone else's emotional with her mother? Better known for quick-witte- d solo performances Kron dressed in black and with note cards in hands is appearing in her new production “Well" at The Public Theater ' Aside from humor Kron delivers a tender tug-of-w- ar of the sometimes prickly relationship between jicrself and her severitysome- thing mother Ann "Well’7 has resonated with critics and audiences who wel- come its unpredictability and ' freshness Opening in March to favorable reviews and sold-oshows the play has been extended through May 16 It earned praise from Tlie New York Times to the Village-Voicto New Yorker magazine which said its “most powerful and affecting display is of a daughter’s love” and deal with me” light Houdyshell a delight to ' observe drives the cast to mutiny by prompting other members of the cast — Saidah Arrika Ekulona Welker White Joel Van Liew and Kenajuan Bentley — to chat with her and disrupt (he flow of things “It has brought us closer in the way of really showing up for each other through a process that’s uncomfortable'7 Kron says of her real-lif- e ut : Boat sinking this week a CM c Q mother who lives in Lansing O Mich “I've continually been o ‘C There are surprised tiipes when I thought she can't han-die it and it’s me who can't” While Kron appreciates a play and a good she story says she doesn't O seem to be able to write one E “in that straightforward way” Z3 o The unconventional -it even works though approach H took three years to complete 2 the new play a cleverly a orchestrated mess that uproots ' 0) Kron’s memories of growing ' in Jewish the Midwest her up mother’s efforts to racially ' CM integrate their neighborhood in and the 1970s the 1960sand d) family’s bouts with allergy- related illnesses Touted as a “solo show with other people in it” the production encapsulates performance ' e theatrics and art sensibilities homespun “Figuring out how to build ' something that is going to fall apart is no easy task” director Leigh Silverman says “And it’s difficult to rehearse spontaneity" When she first got involved with Kron Silverman says ' “Lisa just had a bunch of writing and was trying to figure out AP photo what riie Wanted to say-- was (jg Kron an actor and playwright poses for a portrait on the set of ner comedy “Well at the Public Theater in New York new one- v“y exciting and completely scary Woman show called ’Well" U- well-crafte- £8 d - 1 x r avant-gard- 1 Museum’s racist exhibit tries to promote ' BIG RAPIDS Mich: (AP) bers what he ended up doing “As you consider how they — It all started for David with if: He smashed it to use these materials it’s a powerful powerful teaching Pilgrim with the “mammy” pieces He tiook much better care of salt shaker library in terms of tolerance and understianding for others”: the 4000 or so other related It was toward the end of the items he acquired over the Civil Rights era in the early David Eisler Ferris State’s ' 1970s Pilgrim now a 'years in the name of education president says All are now housed at Ferris sociology professor at Pilgrim gave the museum' State’s Jim Crow Museum of Ferris State University was his entire collection of racist about 13 when he came across Racist Memorabilia which ' comic figurines the dispenser at a flea market books ash trays souvenirs Pilgrim has helped put together in his native Alabama' over the past seven years (The movie posters and other relat- Hems As its curator he For years in the United term “Jim Crow” originated ed Morning or afternoon sessions States ' in receives a small budget in with the a character now created particularly include classes in visual arts ' black face by a white per-the university to expand South it was common to find from ceramics culinary arts! story- the collection salt arid pepper shakers cookie former named Daddy Rice in time drama music and crethe early 800s It later was “The same way we use sex jars and other kitchen arid ative movement and are taught household items made to used as a stereotypical image tosell items today we used to by professional artists and v of blacks and by the late resemble a “mammy” — a use race” Pilgrim says “A teachers Classes will be held of 1800s associated with was Mack a disproportionate number of : stereotypical image ' in the Biiilen Center' racist kerchiefand and items in here are advertising ' : apron-segregationist laws) heavyset AVA Teen Camp will be nurse The and museum's mission to is pieces or had their origins in wearing housekeeper : held June 28 to July 2 and July maid help people understand historiadvertising” 19 22 Workshops will be cal and contemporary racist i The room’s display cases Pilgrim doesn’t remember his exact frame of mind when' are filled with startling offen- offered in animation and docuexpressions arid to serve as a resource for civil rights and sive be irripulrively bought the salt words and mentary ' human rights shaker But he vividly remem y With sessions images organisations per person or $10 for a family ' Advance tickets are available 4 by phone at (208) Titanic: The Musical” at 7 The production not to be- pm May 8 in the Bear Lake confused with the movie Middle School auditorium in ' released a few years ago has Montpelier Idaho garnered much recognition poors will open at 6:40 pm including winning five Tony each evening Tickets are $3 ''Awards his year Bear Lake High School will present the acclaimed Broadway show CO show an applauded Kron’s ability to shatter the wall between actors and audience calling the play a “sort of scrapbook from the past a freewheeling memoir that is in a permanent state of the’ first place well-meani- one-wom- CN ' : 847-029- S-- rts r Slimmer art camp & egistration for AVA y Summer Art & Camp will continue through April and May at the AVA located in the Thatcher-Youn- g Mansion 35 ' W 100 South in Logan 753- 2970 The AVA is open fjrbm f lam to 4 pm Tuesdays through Saturdays Space is limited Art Camp will be held in sessions June 8 June 21-July 5-- 9 and 6 and is available for July hoys and girls ages 6 1 1 one-wee- k 14-(- 25 12-1- -- - ' 1 - t : - - - -- ' movie-making:ag- 12-17 es all-da- 1 anti-bla- ck |