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PRODUCTIONS — 2004-2005

 

Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides

Written & performed by Lucy Alibar-Harrison

Directed by Ariel Nazryan

This is the first installment of a longer solo show about my hometown, on which Flaming Cross is based. The Civil War, or, “The 2nd American Revolution”, never truly ended there, and I grew up seeing KKK rallies, Southern-Baptist infiltration of public schools, and a tendency by parents to christen their sons Robert Lee.  Like the McGonegalls, my family lived very much on the outside.  I was told by teachers and principals that since I wasn’t a Christian, I would go to Hell when I died, and roast there forever will all the aborted babies.  I fled to civilization as soon as I was legally able. I lived for a few years ignorantly assumming that I would never see such disregard for human dignity--that wasn’t white or Christian--by authority figures again.  Oops.  Now that the cross-burning, Constitution-shredding Visigoths from my childhood are back, I want to re-examine the faux-antebellum Southern town that George W. Bush is slowly transforming our entire country into.  Are these towns structured so that some groups don’t fit?  What’s it like to not fit in a town like this?  What’s it like to fit?  I welcome any feedback.  Please tell me your thoughts, and ask me questions, at lah278@nyu.edu.                  Lucy Alibar

Performed as a Work-in-Progress, Summer Harvest, August 2004