I wanted to put something on the record about Comedy of Erros, something worthy of the show and its artists. Besides fiction and poetry, the only language mediums I feel comfortable communicating in now are letters and conversation; I need that context, character and setting.
Hard to Read and Pillow Talk were created in part to respond to this need—to see and hear the subtleties of voice and physicality, to contextualize language in action. I asked people who had visited the show or were familiar with Pillow Talk to send me questions that would be anonymized. Tell us if we should quit smoking again.
We were informally estranged the last decade. I remember she would quit to get cosmetic procedures. Or for a greater good? Maybe you can trick yourself. When my grandmother got lung cancer and beat it in a snip, her resilience had her requested for further study. My mom wants John Waters to direct the movie of her mother, whose last name is perfect: Shade. In our last communication, my grandmother told me off for my many wrong doings, including being a whore on the internet.
Everyone has to make their own decisions. Love the best of their work, but their responses to the movements for Black lives and trans lives on Instagram and Curb felt entitled, like why not listen first? Make space. Oh, the Marciano Art Foundation Union. I had this idea to rent a Union Rat and dress it in Guess?
Do you know how much it costs to rent even the smallest Union Rat? Do you think everything in the show falls into one of those categories? When I was first organizing the show, I was in this post MeToo numb to pleasure phase and making heady selections.
