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November

Women's Issues

Yolanda Fleischer directs "Skylarks,"
a compilation of monologues by and about
women, for The Theatre Company.

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monologues are staged instead of just
being read.
Special to the Jewish News
"I knew women playwrights in
Detroit and asked if they had any
resilient exercise teacher, an
monologues," Fleischer explains
isolate questioning rela-
about the beginning of Skylarks.
tionships and an aging
"Kitty Dubin and others contributed
woman with a collection of
some of their material. Then, I start-
vibrators are three of the characters in
ed corresponding with women
Skylarks, a theater piece consisting of
around the country, and it seems they
monologues about women.
sent me everything they wrote.
Skylarks, put together by director
"I have a ton of material, and that
Yolanda Fleischer, is the second offer-
was a big problem. I was looking at
ing in the 1999-2000 season of The
50 or 60 monologues and deciding
Theatre Company at the University
which to use. I could-
of Detroit Mercy. It
n't use some of my
runs Nov. 19-Dec. 5 on
Yolanda Fleischer directs
favorites because I
the university's Outer
Rashida McElvene and
couldn't
find [an
Drive Campus.
Sherie McDaniel in
actress]
I
thought
"I decided to do this
"Skylarks," a theater piece
they
suited.
Those are
because the other stuff
consisting of monologues
sitting in a pile, and
in our season is so male- about women that is heavy
hopefully we can use
dominated," says
on humor but also contains
them another time."
Fleischer, an associate
serious works that are
Through the dif-
professor of theater. "I
poignant and moving..
ferent monologues,
had a couple of mono-
audiences will gain
logue books that I pur-
insight
into
female
attitudes toward
chased for students who were audi-
love, loneliness, identity, sexuality
tioning, and the monologues them-
and abuse. The director hopes that
selves were so interesting that I
men in the audience will gain some
thought it would be interesting to
sensitivity to things that happen to
put these things together."
women, knowledge about what they
The idea for this program is based
think and understanding of bound-
on similar initiatives performed by
aries
that they want to maintain.
Nell's Girls, a local women's theater
"The program is `R' rated, and I
company founded by Fleischer and
would not bring children," advises
two friends. The major difference
Fleischer, who was artistic director of
with this production is that the

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