The Sunday reading will also be livestreamed. One of five plays chosen from 240 entries, “How to Let Your Lover Die” will be read by actors on Zoom and projected live to audiences at San Francisco’s Potrero Stage on Saturday, July 30, and Sunday, August 7. “It’s about how you make choices at the end of life, and what the consequences of those choices are and how you negotiate them,” she said, adding that the rest is “window dressing.” the play is mostly autobiographical, with the character of Susan based on her spouse of 28 years, Susan Levinkind, who died in 2016 from Lewy body dementia. As her partner slips away, Mich finds support in a group of other elderly lesbian women.ĭykewomon, 72, told J.
The play follows the character of Mich as she navigates her partner Susan’s diagnosis of Lewy body dementia, a progressive disease that causes a decline in cognition, movement and function. Read her obituary.Ī “silence-shattering story of caregiving, community, and honoring the requests of the dying.” That’s how the 2022 Bay Area Playwrights Festival describes “How to Let Your Lover Die,” the first play by Oakland novelist and poet Elana Dykewomon, which premieres at the festival later this month. Here is an enduring tale of the triumph of love and courage over inhumanity.UPDATE, Aug. But at its heart is the most universal story of all: the devotion of one person to another. This is a magnificent and accomplished work that takes us deep inside diverse worlds the Russian pogroms, the immigrant experience, the New York suffrage movement. One extraordinary section of the book deals with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in which many young women died.
Set in the early 20th century, Beyond the Pale follows the lives of two women who are born in a Russian Jewish settlement (the pale of the title) and immigrate to New Yorks Lower East Side. a work of remarkable importance. Now this underground classic is being released across North America in an updated and redesigned edition.
The Village Voice raves, One of the most compelling novels I have ever read. This sweeping, brilliant, richly textured novel has already won the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award.
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