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<p>Fresh Ink is a podcast dedicated to stories from new and emerging playwrights. Every month, we interview a playwright on their work.</p>
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May 29, 2024
02 Matt Gutschick
<p>Welcome back to the second episode of Fresh Ink, featuring Matt Gutschick and his play <em>Van Gogh and Me</em>. <br/><br/><em>Van Gogh and Me </em>is a play about the friendship between Vincent Van Gogh and Adeline Ravoux, a 12 year old girl. Adeline and her family have recently moved to Auvers, a countryside town in the northwestern part of France, for the sake of the health of the youngest member of the Ravoux family, Germaine. There Adeline finds herself without any of the familiarities of Parisian life and without her friends. Her father is preoccupied with making ends meet, her mother is worried about Germaine, the family’s ill infant; and Adeline feels forgotten and has stopped writing, one of her favorite hobbies. She encounters some local teenagers, René Secrétan and his cousin Cecile Demey, who inform her that a mad man is coming to live with Adeline and her family. </p><p>When Adeline encounters Van Gogh, who is haggard, missing an ear, the rumors of the teenagers are confirmed. Adeline runs back to them, and together they play a cruel trick on Van Gogh. When the opportunity comes for Van Gogh to report Adeline to her parents, he takes a different path, choosing instead to cover for the girl. </p><p>Rene and Cecile have plans to further torment the Dutch painter, and they rope Adeline into being an accomplice yet again. Afterwards, Adeline is racked with guilt, and she seeks out Van Gogh to apologize, attempting to make it up to him by agreeing to sit for a painting. </p><p>Adeline is taken aback by what Van Gogh produces. It’s a rendering of an older, more mature Adeline. Of an Adeline not as she is, but as she perhaps one day will be, or wishes to be. Van Gogh explains to Adeline his philosophy of capturing the truth behind things, rather than their mere likeness. Others are less charmed, though, by Van Gogh’s eccentric approach to the craft. Another painter criticizes the portrait, sending Van Gogh into a rage.</p><p>Adeline pursues Van Gogh to comfort him, but meets Rene and Cecile yet again. This time, their abuse reaches new heights when they draw a gun on the painter. Adeline, in a moment of sheer impulse, jumps in front of the line of fire. Thankfully, the gun is full of blanks, and at that moment Adeline’s parents appear, chasing the boys off and promising to tell the René’s father of what has transpired here. </p><p>They return to the inn, and all the fractious tensions that previously riddled the family begin to dissipate. The following morning, Germaine laughs for Vincent, Monsieur Arthur Ravoux agrees to keep Adeline’s portrait, and Vincent fans the creative flame of a young author within Adeline. Finally, Vincent invites Adeline to help him finish a painting. </p><p><em>Van Gogh and Me </em>is a play about friendship, about bravery, and about being true to yourself. It is rich in color, expressionistic, and concerned with grace, with forgiveness. It is concerned with truth. I wept. <br/><br/>You can find more of Matt's work on the New Play Exchange https://newplayexchange.org/users/37934/matthew-gutschick and at https://www.matthewgutschick.com/</p><p>Opening music credit – “Lounge” by Ehrling <a href='https://soundcloud.com/ehrling/ehrling-lounge'>https://soundcloud.com/ehrling/ehrling-lounge</a></p><p>Closing music credit – “Everything” by Kids & Explosions https://on.soundcloud.com/45nBRwFXF59ESqhG9 <br/><br/>Special thanks to Jack Zerbe and Katt Walsh for their assistance in the excerpt performance.</p><p><br/><br/><br/><br/></p><p><br/></p>
March 18, 2024
01 Jillian Blevins
<p>This is the inaugural episode of Fresh Ink, featuring playwright Jillian Blevins and her play, MERE WATERS. </p><p>Content Warning: Holocaust, abortion, infant loss.</p><p><em>Mere Waters </em>is a Jewish abortion play by Jillian Blevins. Jewish gynecologist, Gisella Perl, finds herself made camp doctor at Auschwitz. Her daughter, Gabby, is somewhere in the camp but Gisella doesn’t know where. The SS promise her that if she plays her role of camp doctor well, she will be reunited with her daughter. Left to tend to her patients with nothing but some dirty rags and a sharp rock, she is told that there exists another doctor, an SS doctor, Dr. M., who can take the more “interesting” cases and provide them a higher standard of care. Pregnant women, Gisella is told, should be referred to Dr. M.</p><p>Desperate to be reunited with Gabby and duty-bound to save lives where lives might be saved, Gisella labors as a doctor for many months. During this time, she sends several pregnant women to Dr. M. for a higher standard of care. Finally, it is revealed to her through the divine intervention of two Biblical prophetesses that are also the embodiment of every Jewish <em>tante</em>, or aunt—Hannah and Abigail—that the women she sends to Dr. M. are not in fact receiving a higher standard of care. Spurred on by divine encouragement, she confronts the guard, demands the truth, and discovers the unimaginable: the women she thought she was saving are in fact being tortured and experimented upon. None of them, and none of their children, will survive. </p><p>And so Gisella has a new charge, one with divine importance: to perform illicit abortions in secret on the pregnant women in the camp. She is told by the prophetesses that if she does this, not one of them will die, and she will one day be reunited with her daughter. This is the Mitzrayim, or Narrow Place, that Gisella must pass through in order to be reunited with Gabby and do her service to God. </p><p>You can find more of Jillian’s work on the New Play Exchange: <a href='https://newplayexchange.org/users/72695/jillian-blevins'>https://newplayexchange.org/users/72695/jillian-blevins</a></p><p>Opening music credit – “Lounge” by Ehrling <a href='https://soundcloud.com/ehrling/ehrling-lounge'>https://soundcloud.com/ehrling/ehrling-lounge</a></p><p>Closing music credit – “Everything” by Kids & Explosions https://on.soundcloud.com/45nBRwFXF59ESqhG9 </p>
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