This is a brief contemplation of a reminder I received today about riding Life's waves. 

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ANNA: LOVE & LOSS

Written by Nancy Moss, based on her play Anna: Love in the Cold War
Poems Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer
Performed by Dawn Davis

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Set in 1945 Leningrad, this short play depicts one night in the life of the great Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, and her meeting with Isaiah Berlin, an Oxford Don.

About the Playwright:

Nancy Moss’s play Deception won Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s 2014 playwriting contest, had a staged reading as part of Portland’s 2016 Fertile Ground festival and was a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist. Her ten-minute play The Pilot, about a drone pilot, was part of Oregon Contemporary Theatre’s 2013 April festival in Eugene, Oregon. New York’s Nylon Fusion Theatre produced her ten-minute play Conviction in 2017.

Her play Will the Real Charlie Chan Stand Up? – about the Honolulu police detective who inspired the fictional Charlie Chan - had a successful run at Honolulu’s Kumu Kahua theatre in 2012, after winning Kumu Kahua’s Hawaii prize. The Actors Group in Honolulu produced her play Anna: Love in the Cold War, about the Russian poet Akhmatova, in 2002 and 2012; it had a showcase in Abingdon Theatre in New York City in 2011.

Her play Hostage Wife, about the Iraq War, won Abingdon Theatre’s Wolk Award in 2005 and had a staged reading at Abingdon Theatre in 2006 and a 2007 production at Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu. Her musical Infinite Jest had a 1998 production in Honolulu and a 2002 showcase in New York City. Nancy’s website nancymossplaywright.com details her works and productions.

After three months of weekly solocasts, it's time to reassess my energetic commitments and determine how I want to move forward with my creative endeavors. In this brief episode, I explain why I'm taking a bit of a hiatus. Thank you to those of you who listen to and support this podcast; it's so appreciated!