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Synopsis

"Now, a secrets of no use unless you're tempting yourself to tell." Tattle-Tale is a semi-autobiographical solo show of one desperate little sister sworn to secrecy. Set in suburban Texas in 1973, this story chronicles the hilariously cruel sibling rivalries, and the exquisite kindnesses of three sisters who are trapped forever in what the experts affectionately call "a birth order hierarchy".

At the top of the hierarchy is Jean who swaggers like John Wayne through the suburbs of Texas as if The Old West lay just beyond their sub-division. If you need something whittled, or the venom sucked from a rattler bite, or god-forbid, you find yourself over-come with rabies and you need a stoic gun-woman to take you down, she's your go-to girl.

In the middle is Cindy, a genius, and a perfectionist, who is painfully shy.

And at the bottom, the very very bottom is Kim a show off and a sissy and worst of all a tattle tale.

Tattle-Tale transports the audience to a time when a thousand life and death struggles transpire in the time it takes the sun to rise and set on one's front yard.

Development History

Tattle-Tale, my first full length solo show, was developed at Club Solo at the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco and was performed many times at The Marsh, Venue 9, Theatre of Yugen and as part of the guest artists series at College of Marin.