Missbehaving: Tale of Two Daughters

What if we stopped trying to make the female experience about polished perfection…

what if we actually talked about the things that haunted or thrilled or shamed us…

maybe we could let go of the labels, connect back to our humanity, and have some fun on this wild ride of being a woman.

Miss-behaving: an evening of uncensored storytelling that is raw, real, and rich with soul + humor.

where women get on the stage and tell the Truth about their lives.

like no other storytelling show out there…

For us humans, our feelings do not flow in a straight line, but rather they are a complex weaving of different emotions.  In spits and spats they come.  And though I must tell you this story in a straight line, that is not how I felt it.

Then there were vicious fights with my sister.  Slashing at each other with claws outstretched.  I tried to explain my need, desperate, to be elsewhere, to get some help.  “We only get one life.  This is my life.  I don’t want to sacrifice it to my mother’s care.  I’m nearly 60, how much time do I have left?” 

“Then, those first mornings after she died, when I’d wake up and take a deep breath, “Oh, I don’t have to go there today.” As I snuggled down into the comfort of my own bed, “I can sleep here for more than one night in a row.  I can take my time, have my coffee, sit in the garden.”  Great big sobbing breaths.  Of sorrow yes, but not far behind, relief.”

It hits now, with the force of a storm, strange cries pour from my mouth as I howl with the losing of her. I have lost my mother. I have lost my mother. 

View All

Related Posts

Published on June 07, 2019

Stepping Into the River

Widows Anonymous opens tomorrow, June 8.  Today is finalizing all the details: printing the program, getting my costume ready, deciding on my makeup, and choosing which talisman I will take with me.  I’m planning one more rehearsal […]

Creativity
Theater
Widows Anonymous
Writing

Published on May 19, 2013

Landscape of the Soul

Last week I had four beautiful actresses sitting in my living room, reading excerpts from a performance piece I am developing, ‘Skins I have Worn.’  Six months ago I could not have imagined that as […]

Creativity
Theater

Published on September 18, 2015

It’s a New Day

It’s a new day, it’s a new dawn…. and I’m feeling good.  Why?  So hard to say.  Maybe as much a puzzle as to why I was feeling numb last week.  But here are some […]

Creativity
Revelations
Skins I've Worn
Theater