* Member, Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule.
DIRECTOR/PLAYWRIGHT'S NOTE
Dear Theatre-goer,
When I was 13 years old, my parents uprooted our family from our sheltered enclave in Minnesota, where “being nice” was the creed of the land, and moved us to a far more metropolitan and diverse town on the south shore of Boston, where niceness marked you as an easy target for bullying. It was a huge adjustment, and though I realize now there were much worse places to be thrust into (MUCH worse!) at the time my adolescent mind recoiled, and was outraged by the injustice of it all. Thirteen, you may recall, is hell.
In 2013, when I began this play, part of me was interested in gaining revenge over the “hard girls” in my school all those years ago by writing a retrospective hatchet job on them. That desire almost immediately fell away as I became more and more invested in their fates, finally falling in love with them and forgetting I ever had a grudge in the first place.
I’m thankful to Martha Demson and Open Fist for premiering this play in October, and equally grateful to Friends of TO THE BONE, whose outpouring of generous donations have allowed us to remount the show here at Theatre 68.
- Catherine Butterfied
