Her small town is known for its annual school performance of "Our Town". Way back when, she portrayed the stage manager, and she slips into that play's manner of spoken stage directions as she describes the last days of preparation for this year's performance.
It is fantastic - beautifully portrayed, amazing stage presence, and real magic.
Portrayed by stage actor Geoffrey Bayldon, Catweazle was a hero to bunglers everywhere.
He's still on a path to interview professional actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors to examine how masculinity is portrayed on stage.
The most heartening response, though, came from Emily Rueb, a Times editor of a generation too young to have known the ridiculous and noble fools portrayed on stage.
In order to shock the audience and thus evoke the necessary response, the extremes of human nature (often madness and perversion) were graphically portrayed on stage.
Like so many Westerners abroad portrayed on stage or screen, he is quite patronizing at first, and is the butt of various jokes about his cultural ignorance.
"But there's still a demand for black comedy because it's just a rare opportunity for black audiences to see themselves portrayed on stage".
So I cringed at the prospect of being portrayed on stage, ready to turn up my collar and dig deep into the seat.
Continuing his research, Porterie plans to interview professional actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors as he examines how masculinity is portrayed on stage as well as outside the theater.
