TEACHER FEATURE // See Grace Bello's McSweeney's Monologue This Weekend

In a short story published on McSweeneys.com, Grace Bello, an accomplished writer and flash fiction teacher here at 3rd Ward, took A Street Car Named Desire's iconic Southern belle Blanche DuBois off the stage and plopped her in quite a comical scene: a corporate holiday party.

Now Bello's take on DuBois is headed back to the stage as part of BLOGOLOGUES: Sex, Drugs and Interwebs, an hour-long performance of blog posts and other online pieces presented by New York's Lively Productions.

"Blanche DuBois is one of the most haunting and complex characters in American theater, so I'm really excited to see my satire come to life in this show," Bello tells us. "Plus, the story was published in 2009, so I'm glad not only that the story found a home in McSweeney's but that is finding a home on the stage and continues to resonate with readers."

Lively Productions contacted Bello out of the blue asking for permission to perform the monologue. "I've actually never seen my work performed by other people," she says. That'll change this weekend, though, when she'll depend on the kindness of strangers to act out her splendid piece.

BLOGOLOGUES: Sex, Drugs and Interwebs happens this Friday, May 13 and Saturday May 14th at 8pm at Under St. Mark's (94 St. Mark's Place, between 1st and A). Find out more at livelyproductions.com and get tickets here.

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