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Asheville, North Carolina
Desiree O’Clair, BOLD’s organizer in Asheville, was BOLD 6 months before BOLD happened! Due to a problem with our website Desiree could not get in touch with the playwright by email. She wanted to bring Birth to Asheville so badly she decided to contact the director directing a production of Birth at City Lights Theater Company in California and asked to be put in touch with the playwright. Once the connection was made Desiree was off and running! She produced a 2 week full production at the North Carolina Stage Company as part of their catalyst series starting the week before BOLD and ending on Labor Day weekend. All performances saw high attendance with the 2 BOLD performances, a benefit for the local International Cesarean Awareness Network’s local chapter, selling out. They also received a GREAT review in the Citizen-Times. Desiree, who said attendance was high from the medical community in Asheville, submitted this letter from a local doctor: Dear Desiree, I very much enjoyed the performance Saturday night, and I also appreciate all the effort you've gone to produce 'Birth.' The performance seemed to be very successful and well-received, and the collective enthusiasm of audience, actors and panel participants was encouraging and very powerful. I opened a solo Ob-Gyn office after realizing there was a real niche for a small practice that could provide more personalized care for women. I also realized that I wouldn't want to go to an Ob office that had five or six delivery doctors, so why not practice the way I would want if I were a patient? Asheville’s director, Josh Batenhorst, emailed us his “Asheville Reflections:” Unless you haven't heard, BOLD was a huge success in Asheville. I haven't received exact figures yet, but I feel like we were very close to setting a box office record for attendance at a CATALYST series (non-main stage) show at North Carolina Stage Company. I feel like BOLD could very well redefine Labor Day, much in the way the Vagina Monologues has taken over V-Day. A BOLD thank you … Desiree writes, “to Dennis O'Clair, without whom the Asheville production could not have been possible. He became Mr. Mom, got our kids off to school, and ran our household so that I could produce the show.” |
