Send Claire to New York!

csecooney  wrote a play.  A play that's being performed!  But Claire has what many of you who read will understand as a bit of a geographical handicap in being a resident of the Second City rather than THE CITY, and needs to get out there and back. 

So, we are raising some funds.

I need $350.00 for a plane ticket.

Here's what I can offer you.

After the first $100, I will put up my play "Selkie" for all of you to read or rip apart, as it pleases you.

At $200, I will write a reflection on how reading Ibsen's Lady from the Sea provoked me into writing Selkie in the first place. This means I will probably have reread Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. All right. Go on. Twist my arm.

At $300, I will write a song called "Selkie." I do not know what it will be about, except the obvious. I will find some musician of my acquaintance to set it to music. Probably my brother Remi. WHY NOT?

For the last $50, I have asked my brother Declan, who raps, to create a Selkie rap. He said his spirit is willing but that "these things take some time." I told him he had a month. Tee-hee. Artists LIKE to work under pressure. SURELY!