ICameISawICriticized

 

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Introduction/Definition/etc

 

ICameISawICriticized

 

"I Came, I Saw, I Criticized"

 

A line from Judy Gold's Mommy Queerest

at the TheatreJ.org in DCJCC to transition

between holiday family time and the real world...

 

20100106 11.51 am Jerry

 

 

Body

 

End of the run of December 16- January 3, 

experienced something a little more

outside my realm of understanding than

Diveristy, Power & Authority Tavistock

group relations conferences at Howard

University (see RacismAnonymous)

and much shorter...

 

Judy's a 6'3" Observant Jew

raised in New Jersey, now lesbian mother

of 2 NYC boys looking for funding

another bathroom...

 

The rest is probably contraversial,

insensitive and spoiling, so you've

been warned.  But unlike the

UpInTheAirAndPreciousSPOILER2009

I don't do character assassinations in

person.  She had the guts to get

up on stage, do standup, pitch

the Jewdy Show (several times),

open her life to public amusement,

discuss Schwendy (spelled that correctly? 

It was Sharon, but anonymously Wendy,

and she was consistent in it's use

the rest of the show...) included...

 

Then after her partner has an artificially inseminated baby,

after shopping at $1000 a pop, she says,

(the roles are a little uncertain, as she mentioned,

who's the guy in the relationship?

traditional Male Female roles with Lesbians

are a little more vague than even MH and Advocacy

in VA following M.Kennedy & S.H. Cho...)

 

On to finding another relationship (bagged a Therapist!),

travelling on the road with her mother ("some bring writers,

I brought my mother, the source of the content"

or very similar.

 

Coming out in therapy with her sister,

"Oh, MY God!"...

 

Not coming out to her father,

even after an openning/ opportunity,

before he died.

Losing her father and the opportunity

to buffer breaking it to her mother,

discovering comedy in college,

after near decades of ridicule in grade

and high school, with photos projected

like Carrie Fisher's performance Wishful

Drinking, though probably more common

than my limited theatre going knowledge...

 

 

In the tradition of

Diversity: RacismAnonymous

Comedy: AlexandriaLaughs

National Theatre: FusionImprobableattheKennedyCenter

Performances to Disablity: StElizabethsSummerConcertSeries

Vagina Monologues :-} CarrieFishersWishfulDrinkingAtLincoln

It was just up my alley,

but I'm getting old, senile, demented, and it's been a few

days since the last of the series show run on Sunday

evening, and a late ridiculing MetroAccess driver

back home, so I'm unable to remember

most of the funny lines like Wishful Drinking.

 

I was tired, very very tired,

and again/ still now,

but oddly excited to try something new,

most stuff I do anymore has to be high

intensity to hold my almost ADHD interest,

vacillating to couch potato/ slug / depressed mode,

all of which I do, in my life, really isn't funny,

so how do comedians keep us laughing

when their lives are probably

not what they want it to be too?

 

There is a tradition of comedians being depressed,

but somehow seeing the world in a sage like way

that makes us laugh...

 

She actually seemed a little scared to me,

maybe of what is next, or the stereotypical fear

of bags (unattended bag!  it's just my lost/

newly bought marbles, really, for a project with kids...

plus a few more layers of clothing, helmet,

assorted information like bus schedules,

water bottle, old StreetSense papers,

in case no one believed that I'd written and

published things in the past,

and a new collection of Driedels from a

newly discovered DC store, slightly out

of season and on sale, with instruction sheet...)

 

Maybe she will google herself, as mentioned

in the show/ performance and see this?

But it's so far down in pageRank that

it probably won't be seen...

 

Not that she would have any interest

in moi, Lesbian and all, plus she was

a writer for the Roseanne show and

other big league gigs...

 

Maybe it was that the show was ending

and back to her more normal life that scared

her?

 

All two non Jewish audience members,

as she put it, jokingly, but it's hard to tell,

asking the guys next to me, only 60 families

in PW county??, one synagogue/ temple

and no domestic violence assistance listed

on the JCADA (JCADA.org) pamphlet

(remember I'd just reviewed/ Precious??)

from the lobby and survived the holidays.

 

But I digress...

 

Overall impressions:

 

Funny, somewhat sad,  nowhere were the

antidepressants mentioned? as I saw in some of the

press somewhere, to a likely sold out last show,

in very cold 10-20 degree F weather without windchill,

feeling awkward but somehow tolerated

(baggy, biker w/ helmet, my usual casual dress

(Formal means you wear socks!),

but better than usual wearing theatre black, as it's slimming

for the holiday excesses, and blends??? ;-/,

loner on a night out, poor, Gentile, Straight, socially awkward,

culturally ignorant (Asked for a "Jewish Culture for Idiots" book

in the little store, sales/shopgirl was somewhat amused, etc)

hid in the "Jewish store" pre show to avoid sitting/ standing

in the lobby waiting and fidgetting, but not eating after an expensive [for me]

$30+ fees, and associated transportation costs,

post holiday, on disability...)  but still cheaper

and more beneficial to me than traditional

therapy...

 

And who can't use a room full of Jewish Mothers

to feel better?  ;-/

 

 

Recommendations:

 

To be taken way out of context,

as with most of what I've done...

 

1. Give Jewdy Her [Own!] Show!
2. Look for Improv / Comedy Clips online...
3. Learn more culture, pick a culture, any culture, it's all spoiled anyway, that's what culture is...
4. Suggest a disabled rate, there is a seniors, and 35 & under, maybe student, all lumpted into low income
5. Try to laugh, when able...
6. Excuse me, Mahjongg, is calling me.  FWIW: computer solitaire sets it up, and moves the tiles for me, and little social interaction / demands ;-/

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

See above plus any other thoughts that emerge, later,

when thaw out, able to think, get over the New Year rush,

scheduling hell, etc...

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

Page History

 

20100219 Jerry 

• A couple of fixes to the mess...
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20100114 Jerry

• Adding / editing a bit.  Not much...
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20100106 Jerry

• Jerry created this page to share a theatre experience to a larger audience...

 

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