Women Supporting Women in the Performing Arts!

Guest Blog from Jerilyn Stapleton, CA NOW Chair, Media Reform

Last Thursday a group of us from the Screen Actors Guild Women's Committee took a field trip to see our fellow committee member and National SAG Board member Frances Fisher in her play entitled Sexy Laundry.

It was the most laugh-out-loud funny, touching and moving play I have seen in quite awhile. This dramedy is about a long married couple trying to put the spark back into their marriage on a weekend in a hotel. Both Paul Ben-Victor (Henry) and Frances Fisher (Alice) give outstanding performances. In fact, the guy sitting behind me said "she's amazing!" Because the play has just depth and range into human relationships, I was surprised to find out that the young women who wrote the play, Michele Riml, is only 30 something. She is an award-winning playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia. The setting is a room in the lavish "L" Hotel and done very plush by Production Designer, Joel Daavid. The Costumes were beautifully done by Traci McWain. And wonderfully directed by Gary Blumsack.

Frances Fisher will also be joining us at Women in the Public Eye, the 2008 Annual Membership Meeting/State Conference, on behalf of the Peace & Safety Committee of CA NOW.

The play has been extended until the end of March. For those of you that live in southern California, I urge you to support women performers and writers by going to see this play at The Hayworth Theatre, 2511 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90067 Tel: 213.289.9860. You can get discount tickets online.

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How exciting! I can't wait to be there!