WAITING FOR GERTRUDE
Time and longing in the graveyard: a colony of feral cats living in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris are reincarnations of the famous artists, musicians and writers buried there. The cat Alice B. Toklas awaits the rebirth of Gertrude Stein in cat form, while Tristesse yearns for Oscar Wilde, who yearns for rock star Jim Morrison, who lusts after everyone else. Magic potions are concocted, strange objects are lost, and Marcel Proust (P.I.) curls up in a ball and looks for the answers in his own orifices.
Basing it on the comic novel by Bill Richardson, Alex Players performed this at Oaklands Green on Belmont Avenue to appreciative audiences. DONATIONS raised were shared with VICTORIA CAT RESCUE SOCIETY.
Waiting For Gertrude was performed again in the tent at the Selkirk Waterfront Festival, a challenging event as the performance tent was set up in what amounted to a thoroughfare. People, bikes, wheelchairs and baby buggies passed between actors and audience and even crossed the back of the set, but the actors nevertheless delivered their dialogue without missing a beat.
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