Literary arts

What is a woman’s relationship between the experience of spending time in a natural setting away from everyday chores, and the release of self-expression through writing?

Start with this:

Walking on a salty sandy beach, then sitting down to write.

Eating thoughtfully created organic meals prepared for you in a warm kitchen. Sharing your new writing with the other residents in a comfortable living room after dinner.

This play was commissioned by Americans for  the Arts and was first performed as part of the conference session, Too Progressive, Too Elite: Public Value and the Paradox of the Arts, at the Grantmakers in the Arts 2011 conference on October 11, 2011. The cast consisted of  Elise Hunt, Britney Frazier, and Sean San José. You can watch a video of this performance at the GIA YouTube channel.