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"It's a dangerous world we live in, and we all have our ways of coping. Kim Porter's method was knocking on wood, which like alcoholism or cowlicks, ran in her Texas family. Porter, an endearing storyteller, comically confronts her compulsive 200-knock-a-day habit through a series of reminiscences tracing the problem back to her childhood, when her Aunt Edna's horror stories of shark attacks in 3 feet of water would be followed by a brisk round of wood knocking from her canasta club audience. Porter's loathing for her own timidity, and the brief bursts of optimism that occasionally still it, is keenly felt, and she juxtaposes lyrical metaphors (a tornado encroaching "like an accusatory finger") with a fine ear for the banalities of ordinary human speech."
—Heather Wisner San Francisco Weekly

I developed Knock on Wood in 1998 with Club Solo at The Marsh Theatre in San Francisco. Knock on Wood was performed at The Marsh, Venue 9, Theatre of Yugen, College of Marin, and the SF Fringe Festival.