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Squalor

Squalor

Idiom Theater

September, 2010


Save the dates for my next acting project:

"Squalor"
a new play
by Mike Mathieu
iDiOM Theater
September 9 - 25, 8pm
Buy Tickets Here

A wildly inventive powerhouse of a show. Alternately dramatic and hilarious. Stunning visuals and supercharged physicality. I play a violent white-trash matron. It will be totally awesome.

(strong language & situations = good for teens and up)

Hope summer is keeping you sunny.

love,

c.



My poem won a prize!

Every year the Whatcom Poetry Series sponsors the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Contest. This year my poem, Wild Orchid, was one of ten “Walk Award” winners. It will be printed and posted on local busses and engraved on a metal plaque for display outside the downtown library. You can read all the winning poems here: Poetry Winners

and here’s Wild Orchid. Love to all, c.


Wild Orchid

by Carolyn McCarthy

Dead brown cedar litter and velvet liverwort
blanket the slumbering ground.
It rains for months
until a warm wind wakes the trees
the winter wren sings her spring song
and trillium unfurl their wide white flags.

Then the first wild orchid appears
leopard-spotted and spiky,
proud pink punk rock princess
whose bloom hangs around for a week or so
then fades to a ghostly husk,
crumpling back to the mossy ground
for another fifty weeks.

What if I put down my pencil
loosed my hair from its knot
and lay still in the dirt,
facing up?

 
Carolyn McCarthy graduated with honors from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where she acted and sang in numerous productions.

In Seattle, McCarthy completed the Advanced Actors Training Program at Freehold Theatre and studied voice with Jay Clayton.

She currently makes her home in Bellingham, Washington, where she has earned a stellar reputation as a writer, actor and singer.

Carolyn lives with her sweetheart, Kent Chasson, who builds exquisite guitars, and their son, Jesse, who is just plain exquisite.
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