Circumference and Broken Brain on the City Pages A-list today.

Writes Quinton Skinner, theatre dude...

An injury to the brain is nothing to laugh at unless, you know, you find a way to make it funny. Interact Center’s "Broken Brain Summit" is inspired by true stories of performers in the show who have experienced brain trauma, and if you’re familiar with the center’s performances, you know how they embrace and examine disability with wit and profound humor. Amy Salloway writes the show, and if you’re familiar with her frank and witty monologues, you’ll pony up the dough and stick around for "Circumference". First seen at last year’s Fringe, Salloway’s one-woman show ponders gastric-bypass surgery, the horrors of gym classes past, and an on-again, off-again relationship with her body. Salloway has a gift for detail, a technician’s skill with words, and a dead-on instinct for finding humor where others might mine only darkness. — Quinton Skinner

Bless him.


In case anyone thinks I take ANY publicity like that for granted - or in case anyone in the theatre field ANYwhere perceives me to be some kind of bitchy, whining diva who complains about minutia because she thinks she’s the hottest thing since Bryl-Creme -- I would like to state for the record, merely because this is a good time to do so, that I am absolutely and utterly AGOG every time someone so much as knows who I am, much less writes about me, much less writes kind things about me, much less writes truly complimentary things about me. It blows my MIND that I’ve been mentioned in City Pages four times since this past August...I never, ever, EVER thought I’d be that person. I have had more than my 15 minutes of fame, and I am so, so grateful, and I am well aware that it could all stop tomorrow, and if it did, I would not ever complain about not having gotten a fair share of media attention. It doesn’t matter to me that Minneapolis isn’t NYC or LA or Broadway. I feel grateful nonetheless.

Whether this will result in actual audiences at "Circumference" remains to be seen (my prediction: prolly not). One can hope. :-)

Anyway. I’m happy for me, and I’m happy for "Broken Brain Summit", which is well-deserved of these accolades too.