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“I related so much to the inner world of this gay ranter at the center of Chimes.”
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“I’m not a reliable narrator of my own experience, and I’m trying to capture that.”
“Do you think of this character as Tom?”
“In my show I say my name is Morgan.”
“__________________________________ Chimes by Tom Cole is available from the Song Cave.”
“On a really practical level, what was the process of writing this?”
“–Morgan Bassichis * Morgan Bassichis : Chimes was the very first thing I read after closing my show Can I Be Frank?, about another neurotic queer monologist, the late Frank Maya, and your monologue just felt like such a buoy and a balm in that weird and disorienting time after finishing something.”
“I don’t know if you can tell I’m going for a laugh at every turn.”
“I took over 1000 notes from my editors at The Song Cave.”
“I’m grappling with the idea of the label “autofiction.” Would you refer to your work that way, as it seems to be so much about you?”
“I’m definitely a shame-based writer.”
“I wrote it as fiction, and hope it reads that way, but with a theatrical flair—a hybrid.”
“The first draft of Chimes was more than twice as long as the completed monologue.”
“And he worked with you on Can I be Frank?”
“You’re also clearly performing a show, and that isn’t all true.”
“Their past performances include A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), Don’t Rain On My Bat Mitzvah (co-created with Ira Khonen Temple, Creative Time, 2021), Nibbling the Hand that Feeds Me (Whitney Museum, NYC, 2019), Klezmer for Beginners (co-created with Ethan Philbrick, Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2019), Damned If You Duet (The Kitchen, NYC, 2018), More Protest Songs!(Danspace Project, NYC, 2018), and The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical (co-created with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Ilona Osato, and Una Aya Osato, New Museum, NYC, 2017).”
“MB : Our shared memoir!”
“It’s exactly the kind of book you want to send to someone without context, like a really good psychic or money.”
“It’s a slim volume, which means it feels like a present instead of a burden.”
“But that doesn’t mean it has to have happened.”
“But also very reliable, in terms of their emotional truth.”
“On some level, I think your unnamed narrator, of course, is deeply unreliable.”
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