Ashland woman gets hooked on writing plays.Byline: Oregon Author by The Register-Guard NAME: Dori Appel, Ashland. WHAT HAVE YOU WRITTEN? ` `Hot Flashes hot flashes Hot flush Gynecology A symptom afflicting 80-85% of middle-aged ♀, first occurring during the perimenopause, continuing with ↓ intensity for yrs, manifesting itself as transient waves of erythema and uncomfortable warmth beginning in the ,' a revue-style comedy about menopause, co-authored with Carolyn Myers, was produced by Mixed Company Productions in Ashland in 2001. (It was subsequently aired on RVTV, public access cable TV in Southern Oregon This article is about the southern region of the U.S. state of Oregon. For the University, see Southern Oregon University. Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. , many times.) ` `Tilt' (which, incidentally, includes "Monkeyshines'), a revue-style comedy about skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data or misperceived reality, was produced by Actors' Theatre, in Talent, just outside Ashland, in 1991.' WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND? `I grew up in Chicago, lived in Boston for many years, and currently live and write in Ashland. Our children all being grown, the household consists of my husband and myself, a dog and two cats. (The animal population is lower than usual, but I'm trying to learn to be sensible.) ``I'm primarily a playwright, but began as a poet and fiction writer, and continue to have a poet's attachment to language. I'm also a psychologist and psychodramatist, and an animal advocate serving on the board of the Southern Oregon Humane Society A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal suffering due to cruelty or other reasons. Examples Examples of humane societies include: The Humane Society of the United States, Peninsula Humane Society, American Humane which was founded in 1877 as a network of .' WHEN DID YOU START TO WRITE? `While I've been a writer most of my life, and was attracted to theater since childhood, I didn't start writing plays until the early '80s. At least that's what I believed until I recently, when I discovered an early short-short: a few sheets of pencil-smudged paper tucked in among letters and mementos saved by my mother from my childhood. ``This was a note of passionate complaint, written in the form of a play, and I'd apparently left it on the dining room table for my parents to see when they returned from an evening out. A brief but powerful drama (complete with stage directions), it exposed my brother's reprehensible rep·re·hen·si·ble adj. Deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy. See Synonyms at blameworthy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin repreh behavior during their absence, including the unfair tactics he'd used to seduce se·duce tr.v. se·duced, se·duc·ing, se·duc·es 1. To lead away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct. See Synonyms at lure. 2. To induce to engage in sex. 3. a. my beagle beagle, breed of dog beagle, breed of small, compact hound developed over centuries in England and introduced into the United States in the 1870s. It stands between 10 and 15 in. (25.4–38.1 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 20 and 40 lb (9. , Waggy, over to his side. ``Following that early effort, however, I didn't write plays until after I'd moved to Ashland from the East Coast. As a fiction writer, I'd believed that the only way I could tell a story was through narrative occasionally sparked by dialogue, so the idea of doing it entirely through dialogue and action was a really a wild idea!'' WHAT'S NEXT? `Two new plays and a book of poems. I recently entered my first poetry slam poetry slam n. A spoken-word poetry competition. contest a couple of weeks ago and won. `I also just finished a story and illustrations for my grandson's third birthday.' WHAT ARE YOU READING? `I just finished `The Lovely Bones' and am now reading `French Lessons' and `The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.' ' WHERE CAN WE CATCH YOU? ` `Bending the Rules' will be produced by Next Step Theater at the Seattle Fringe Festival, Friday through Sept. 29. I'm also very excited about a reading of `Freud's Girls,' directed by Edgar Reynolds, which will be held at Artists Repertory Theatre repertory theatre Production of several different plays in a single season by a resident acting company. The plays chosen may be classic works by famous dramatists or new works by emerging playwrights, and the companies that perform them often serve as a training ground for (ART) in Portland ON Oct. 28. ` `Freud's Girls', which won the 1998 Oregon Book Award in drama, is a play that means a lot to me. `Also, a short play, `Monkeyshines,' will be produced in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , as part of Doppelgang Production's Namesake Short Play Festival, Oct. 15-26.' Oregon Authors appears regularly on the Books page. Direct comments or suggestions to Assistant Features Editor Paul Denison, who can be reached by phone at 338-2323, or by e-mail at pdenison@guardnet.com. |
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