Steven’s New Play LITTLE WARS Receives Workshop in NYC…
“McCasland’s outstanding ability to write in the diverse voices of others reaches a climax in the revelatory monologue spoken — uttered, stormed forth — by Gertrude Stein in which this paragon of toughness wails and, yes, complains: Why am I not normal?”, a plaint that goes way beyond her being gay.
She’s homely, ugly, odd looking, a character, she doesn’t talk like other people, she doesn’t think like them, she doesn’t write in a “regular” way, she’s not normal. And in case you think for one moment that could be an easy path, she lets you know for sure: it isn’t. That monologue, as played by Maggie Wirth, is a theatrical high point.”
