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The Great Nebula in Orion and Three Other Plays

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When I ws a senior in high school Kendra Jones and I did The Great Nebula in Orion for acting class. We spent hours picking apart the two female characters inthe play and one day, when we were talking about our respective characters' religious beliefs, it came to surface that neither I, nor my lesbian character, belived in blasphemy. Or at least didn't believe in the "God will smite the wicked" kind of blasphemy. Obviously, I was raised by white liberals and my character was a lesbian. Kendra and her character, on the other hand, were devout and life-long Southern Baptists. Kendra was appalled. I mean really appalled, she was astonished that I was not a smoking heap of ashes. At the same time we were reseashing this understated little gem of a play and bein shocked by each other's incomprehensible religious beliefs, my parental units were going through that screaming bloody murder at each other on the phone phase of their divorce. One day Kendra and I were emerged from working out blocking in my basement lair just in time to see my hysterical mother fling the phone at wall. It burst into a thousand pieces and Kendra never came back to the house again. I think she thought the whole place was cursed or something. The weird thing, of course, is that the play is just like that. Odd, neh? I thought so