#aaron posner

Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage (2003)

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— The Chosen, adapted by Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok

The Julie Ruin, Calverton // Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Angel Standing in the Sun // Ada Limon, The Conditional // Caspar David Friedrich, Woman Before the Rising Sun // Aaron Posner, Stupid Fucking Bird

J. Samuel Davis plays Antoine in New Jewish Theatre's production of "District Merchants." Credit: ERIC WOOLSEY | NEW JEWISH THEATRE

Stupid Fucking Bird, Aaron Posner

So, there’s this story of his called “The Tiny Sacred”- there’s this little orphan girl in it, and she has… consumption, or something, so she lives mostly in her tiny little room, mostly in bed, and she creates these imaginary worlds. But when things are particularly bleak… she does the Hope Dance. The Hope dance. Don’t you love that? So when I was maybe, oh twelve or thirteen or so, after one particularly terrible day- you know, evil step-father, poor me, blah blah blah - one night I just got up on my bed and… I did it. I did the Hope Dance. And I instantly felt better. He gave that to me. He gave me that gift. And now he’s right here. And… he seems to like me. Me! While he was talking to me last night and I got weak in the knees. That’s a thing that actually happened. My knees got weak… he touched my arm right here for, like, two seconds, and I swear it burnt me. I mean... What am I supposed to do with that?