New Play Wednesday
Last night I saw Eric Bogosian’s “Bitter Honey” at the Public Theater, which isn’t so much a play as it is a collection of “underperformed” monologues by Bogosian, done as part of a benefit for the P.T. Right after I bought my ticket I noticed that Julianna Hatfield was playing next door at Joe’s Pub, and I almost returned my ticket b/c Hatfield is the second most attractive singer/songwriter I’ve ever seen and a significant amount of my driving in high school and since has been done while Become What You Are blasted from my speakers. But I wanted to see Bogosian more than I wanted to resist the temptation to propose to J.H. right there in front of the Joe’s Pub audience, so in I went. I’d recommend that anyone in NY not doing anything tonight go see this show. His characters have such great, specific points of view and Bogosian finds ways to take them into really dark and absurd places without it being wacky or silly, which I love. Monologues are a form I need to play more with.
After the show ended I walked to the restroom, which you have to walk through a hallway by the stage entrance and dressing rooms for Joe’s Pub to get to. There, sitting in a chair near the foot of a staircase leading up to the men’s room, was Julianna Hatfield. I walked right past her. Our eyes met. My heart melted. I forgot to propose.