May 2011 Update

I've been in hiatus for a while but I'm hoping to get back to wordsmith battle readiness. I've got some small writing projects in the works. I'm looking at attending a UK dramatic writing program that would give me the international creds and contacts I need for to get my work out to English speaking audiences abroad. Besides that I lurve London. But my final destination could be Trieste, the incubator for some of the world's best literature and poetry.

Attended a sold out performance of Lisa Haas' In-Heat last night. Hilarious. Sally Sockwell is a babe and a half. She nailed Doris Anderson, the founder of SILC, the Self-Identified Lesbian Center, a support group and cable access show for romance impaired Sapphic sisters. Your's truly had a cameo voice-over as a bisexual calling Doris' lesbian dating hotline.

Just read Roddy Doyle's "A Star Called Henry" and "The Testosterone Files." Both in their own ways Bildungsroman. Which has revived my interest in re-drafting "Big Pink Meat," my own humble coming of age story set in a New Jersey ham factory.

August Update 2010

Hi Folks,

If you're visiting for the first time, welcome!

It's been 2 whole years since I mounted WAITING FOR THE SHOW in the Philly Fringe Festival. It was a great experience and will never forget the immensely talented cast and crew that made it happen. I also cannot thank enough the generosity of our supporters who donated time, money, rehearsal space, and housing for the production.

The latest news about WAITING FOR THE SHOW is that it's been translated into French. I've been querying French speaking theater companies in Canada and researching suitable ones in France. Stay tuned for an international tour!

Meanwhile check out my other work at www.theresadiamond.com

Hope to see you soon!


Terry Diamond
Playwright/Producer

NEWS & PREVIEWS

Carolfi and Ciccone Set for Diamond's Waiting for the Show at Wow Café

By Adam Hetrick
December 23, 2008

Terry Diamond's experimental comedy Waiting for the Show will play a limited run at the Wow Café Theater beginning Jan. 8, 2009.

Diamond also directs the Manhattan engagement that officially opens Jan. 17, 2009 and will conclude Jan. 31, 2009.

Angela Carolfi and Kristin Ciccone are set to appear in the work, which according to press notes, "begins during an afternoon rehearsal of a fire-breathing, snake handling, come-to-Jesus anti-abortion skit in the basement of a major research hospital. Two women, Nina and Anne, diligently rehearse their parts as Maria from The Sound of Music and Founding Father George Washington. But mysteriously, every day at the same time, the rehearsal is interrupted by Nina's trip to the Treatment Room. Mad scientists Dr. Freud and Dr. Nietzsche enter to observe 'The Treatment' that Anne administers to Nina. On this day however, all hell breaks loose."

Waiting for the Show has lighting design by Parker Pracjek and sound design by David Burgess.

The Obie-winning Wow Café Theater has served as the birthplace for such artists as Lisa Kron, Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Karen Finley, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Reno, Split Britches and the Five Lesbian Brothers.

Tickets, priced $20, are available by phoning (212) 868-4444 or by Smarttix

The Wow Café Theater is located at 59 East 4th Street in Manhattan.

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"In play"

We must see our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tired of games and irony. It is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair, to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa): one must put "in play" show up, transform, and reverse the systems which quietly order us about. As far as I am concerned, that it what I try to do in my work. - Michel Foucault

"This play is really intense" - an audience member

"...it was hilarious and made me reflect that actually the whole world is a homophobic, anti-woman psychotic mess."

"i just LOVED the show ... it was really fun, and those actresses are REALLY fucking good !!!"

"THE ACTRESSES ARE PHENOMENAL!!!"

WAITING FOR THE SHOW
BY AARON STELLA FRINGE CORRESPONDENT Director Theresa Diamond’s theater short Waiting for the Show is a visceral projection of America’s deluded psychological schema and a conspiracy theorist’s worse nightmare. And yet, strangely enough, it still finds time for levity. The setting: a basement of a research hospital headed up by a Dr. Freud and a Dr. Nietzsche; the inhabitants (besides the doctors): Nina, a histrionic pro-lifer directing a play that she thinks is going to be showcased at the Right to Life Convention at the white house, and Anne, Nina’s titular actor, plagued with problems of her own. During the first half of the play, the actresses function as mouthpieces, voicing opposing opinions revolving around abortion issues; each characters’ diatribes, sporadically peaking, and broaching larger issues of unchecked balances of government and prevalent social oppression. Come the second half of the play, Dr. Freud and Dr. Nietzsche are introduced; them, representing a common justification that “powerful men” are not only able, but should manipulate the masses. Both actresses are phenomenal; and for such a dark topic, the play is hysterical. Although the props were spare, the actresses were all the audience needed. The only qualm I have (which I have with most fringe events) is that the play is preaching to the choir, and does not so much educate as it fans the flames and impassions those who already sympathize with the advocated perspective. Even so, this is a marvelous production and should not be missed. What’s Good: the acting; the overall message; the writing (brillant!) What’s Bad: the manner in which some perspectives were portrayed were perhaps a bit dated
--http://www.phawker.com/2008/09/02/fringe-reviews-store-waiting-for-the-show/