Our Voices Playwright, G.L. Horton, will have "Ruling Passion" performed in the Newton South High School Student Directing Festival, April 2011

Ruling Passion, by G.L. Horton, will be directed by Abi Oshins, as part of the Student Directing Festival at Newton South High School, Newton, MA, April 28, 29, 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8. The festival will also include, The Land of Cockaigne by David Ives, directed by Ellie Crowley.

 

About Ruling Passion, Geralyn Horton writes: "It's an OLD play, dating back to 1974, when I was in grad school at Goddard/Cambridge working on the Women Studies M.A. I was awarded in 1976.  Some of the characters are based on women- students and teachers- I met in that program.  But the script was inspired by Arthur Kopet's One Act with a similar length and cast, "Chamber Music".  It aspired to be the second half of a Kopet/Horton double bill.  (Hasn't happened. Yet.) The first draft of Ruling Passions was read at Playwrights' Platform, the Boston writers' co-op then in the first decade of what in 2003 will be a 40 year run: probably some kind of record for longevity. The original Boston production featured as Cleopatra the then-wife of Frank Shefton, an excellent actor/playwright/singer still active locally with Up You Mighty Race and Our House theatres in Roxbury/Dorchester, and last time I checked still DJ of the blues show on MIT radio.  Ruling Passion was in a number of women's theatre festivals -- that was back when there WERE women's theatres!-- and was recorded for the blind in the mid 1980s.  Since I put the script on my web site in the mid 1990s it has had a few productions every year -- including England, Ireland,and Australia-- but never one close enough to home that I could see it. So this is a play I have not seen performed in 25 years."

 

CAST of Ruling Passion:

 

Eleanor:  Stephanie Foster
Price: Alex Levy
Mary: Jess Dagg
Cleo: Hannah Dober
Joan: Sydney Morin