Thanks to all for reading, interacting and making this experiment and labour of love worthwhile.
Don Alfonso's role as the "director" of an experiment in love that uses theatrical means can be regarded as the key to my new production.
His experiment: creating a community of love and mutual support on our campus -- a church, for lack of a better word -- without any religious content.
Ultimately, we're not sure if "MOM & DAD" makes Richardson himself as vulnerable as it seems to set out to do, but there is certainly a lot learned by flipping through this odd family photo album turned art experiment -- there's no lack of love in this strange bunch.
Donning lab coats, they also engage the audience in some informal experiments intended to increase the store of love in the world.
"It must have been an influence," Handler says, "but I didn't think it was until I saw Mr Merritt one time and he said: 'What are you working on, on the adult side?' I said: 'Oh, it's this thing that sort of experiments with all these different kinds of love,' and there was this awkward pause, and I thought, oooh...".
By the late '50s Ginsberg had endured his mother's final institutionalization and ugly death, his own emotional sinkholes, a confounding series of sexual experiments and love affairs, the highs and lows of Greenwich Village and Paris bohemia, and the double-edged triumph of "Howl," which made him both the most famous and most notorious poet in Eisenhower-era America.
And she spoke of love, love, love.
But creation is a work of love.
These are the components of an ethic of love.
Moreover, a sense of love was felt between children.
