Introducing Out Lines – where we explore the intersections between independent theatre, LGBTQ+ culture, and history.

Join hosts Virginia Baeta, Mark Finley and Jordan Schildcrout on a 10-episode journey. In our first season, we travel through Doric Wilson’s Now She Dances.

Episode One arrives June 1, 2021.

• Read the play! Download Doric Wilson’s Now She Dances
• Read up on the playwright – Doric Wilson

Transcript is available on the show page at outlinespod.com.

In this episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - introduce the themes of this season and demonstrate how Doric Wilson's Now She Dances is the right play for right now.

Episode Two ETA - June 15, 2021.

Read the play! Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances

Read up on the playwright Doric Wilson

Learn more about TOSOS tososnyc.org

Caffe Cino - Article from the National Park Service

A good article on censorship in U.S. Theatre (from Seattle Rep)

Che! (stage play) and obscenity - Village Voice article (1970)

Lenny (film) - IMDB entry

The imprisonment of Oscar Wilde - History.com entry

In this episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - start walking through Act One of Now She Dances! (NSD) with a brief interlude about the origins and purpose of off-off-Broadway theatre.

Episode Two ETA - June 29, 2021.

From the Now She Dances! discussion:

Metatheatre (Meta) - Wikipedia entry

Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author - Project Gutenberg eBook

The soubrette - Hidden Secrets of the Soubrette (editorial)

Molière's Tartuffe (Dorine) - Project Gutenberg eBook

Franklin Pangborn - An introduction to a neglected star

Rollerena - From The Center's archives

From the off-off-Broadway interlude:

About off-off-Broadway - 1975 NY Times article

The Little Theater Movement / Provincetown Playhouse - Scholarly article from literariness.org

W.E.B. Du Bois / Harlem Renaissance - Scholarly article from CONTINUUM: The Journal of African Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance

Episode transcript is available at outlinespod.com.

In this episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - continue strolling through Act One of Now She Dances! (NSD) with a brief interlude about LGBTQ historical milestones that informed the first drafts of the play.

Episode Four ETA - July 13, 2021.

Read the play! Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances!

Read up on the playwright - Doric Wilson

Learn more about TOSOS – tososnyc.org

Read Oscar Wilde's Salome – Project Gutenberg eBook

Read Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest – Project Gutenberg eBook

From the historical intersections interlude:

LGBTQ Rights Timeline (US History) - Detailed timeline from educational resource

On the decline in theatre censorship (60s/70s) - An article by our own Jordan Schildcrout

Lanford Wilson's The Madness of Lady Bright - Wikipedia entry

Robert Patrick's The Haunted Host - Caffe Cino Photo Archive (includes play text)

Amiri Baraka's The Toilet - CONTINUUM Journal article

The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS) History - From the TOSOS website

Theater of the Ridiculous (Charles Ludlam) - Wikipedia entry

Hot Peaches - YouTube video montage of the faces of Hot Peaches

In this episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - continue strolling through Act One of Now She Dances! (NSD). This week's history break focuses on the character of Salome and how her story has developed over the ages.

Episode Five ETA - July 27, 2021.

Links to the following resources available at outlinespod.com

Read the play! Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances!
Read up on the playwright - Doric Wilson
Learn more about TOSOS – tososnyc.org
Read Oscar Wilde's Salome – Project Gutenberg eBook
Read Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest – Project Gutenberg eBook

References from Episode Four

From the Now She Dances! discussion:
Tom Stoppard's Rosencranz & Guildenstern are Dead - Wikipedia entry

From the Salome Interlude
Salome in the Bible - Story as told in the Book of Mark (NIV)
Flavius Josephus Versions - In The Antiquities of the Jews (Project Gutenberg Text)
Virgin/Whore Complex - TVtropes.org wiki
About the femme fatale - TVtropes.org wiki
Salome - Iconic Femme Fatale - User-created gallery
About Salome in 18th Century (Dijkstra) - From an article on gender - Victorianweb.org
Sarah Bernhardt - Wikipedia entry
Aubrey Beardsley Illustrations - From the British Library
Flaubert's Herodias - Project Gutenberg Text

In this "Intermission" episode, your hosts - Virginia, Mark, and Jordan - step away from the play, Now She Dances!, and take a closer look at the playwright, Doric Wilson.

We will return to Now She Dances! in our next episode.

Episode Six ETA - August 24, 2021.

Episode transcript and links to the following resources are available at outlinespod.com

Read the play! Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances! Read up on the playwright - Doric Wilson Learn more about TOSOS at tososnyc.org Want to request a manuscript of one of Doric's plays? – Send us a message

Don Shewey / Doric Wilson Interview - From Don Shewey's website

Edmund White / Doric Wilson conversation - Video - YouTube

2007 Independent Theatre (IT) Award Lifetime Achievement Acceptance - Video - YouTube

Doric Wilson obituary by Patricia Nell Warren - From the On the Purple Circuit Website

Doric's Stonewall Interview - American Experience video

The history of coming out - From The Conversation

The Glines - Photo gallery

"Envisioning Queer Liberation: The Performance of Communal Visibility in Doric Wilson's Street Theater" (by our very own Dr. Schildcrout) - Project Muse article

Intermission has been extended! We will return to Now She Dances! in our next episode.

Episode Six ETA - August 24, 2021.

Transcript:

Virginia Baeta: Hello listeners. We have some news.

Christopher Weikel as Lane: How uncomfortable.

VB: Our intermission has been extended. And Episode Six will be delayed.

Gail Dennison as Lady Herodias: Mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.

VB: You had nothing to do with it, Lady H. Neither did Covid. And neither did our cats. Anyway, Out Lines will be back in two weeks.

Christopher Borg as The Actor: You’re here. I’m here. We can still make this a meaningful experience.

VB: Nice try. Save it for August 24th.

Karen Stanion as Gladys: Something tingling with excitement is about to take place.

VB: You bet your sweet ass it is.

Learn more about Now She Dances! at outlinespod.com.

Virginia, Mark and Jordan (with continued support from the TOSOS acting company) return for Act II of Doric Wilson's Now She Dances!. For this episode's history break, we resume our discussion of the play's relationship to its times.

Episode Seven ETA - September 7, 2021.

Episode transcript and links to the following resources are available at outlinespod.com

Read the play! Download Doric Wilson's Now She Dances!

Read up on the playwright - Doric Wilson

Learn more about TOSOS at tososnyc.org

Want to request a manuscript of one of Doric's plays? – Send us a message

Moloch, The Machine - YouTube clip from Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Sabina From Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth - YouTube Clip, 1983 Old Globe Theatre production

Removal from list of psychological disorders (1973) - NIH National Library of Medicine Article

First out elected politician (1974) - NBC News Feature Article

NYC Bankruptcy / Ford to City: Drop Dead (1975) - History Channel Video

Don't Ask Don't Tell (1993) - History Channel Article

Will & Grace (1998, 2017) - Vox Article

Matthew Shepard (1998) - "Our Story" page from The Matthew Shepard Foundation Website

Salome's Modernity (2011) - Scholarly work by Petra Dierkes-Thrun