{"id":308,"date":"2019-11-06T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/nakahararon\/?p=308"},"modified":"2019-12-01T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:51:14","slug":"duanne-did-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/nakahararon\/duanne-did-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Duanne Did Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuanne Did Hollywood\u201d was written after Valerie Charles, the creator of \u201cDuanne\u201d returned from an extended stay in Los Angeles. &nbsp;Things didn\u2019t go as desired, I think, and it was after a severe earthquake that she left L.A.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&nbsp;\u201cDuanne Did Hollywood\u201d is the darkest of the Duanne plays. &nbsp;It would be easy to say that the darkening of the scripts and the character mirrored what was happening with the creator, but I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s true. &nbsp; I think that it was more of a natural evolution of a character who was innocent, in the best sense of that word, at her beginning, but as she lived her life, on the page, she saw more and more of what life is like, the disappointments, the hard times, the victories and the losses, the relationships, good and bad, and all the time, time moving on.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&nbsp;I\u2019m sure the plays partly reflect what was happening with the writer, but the character was so complete, so true, from her inception, that an evolution of the kind we\u2019re talking about seems natural somehow, and real, even onstage.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">&nbsp;As far as I know, there are no more Duannes after \u201cHollywood,\u201d and if so, maybe it\u2019s fitting that way. &nbsp; 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