A THIN, GREENISH VAPOR by Courtney Baron, Nora Douglass, David Golden, Stuart Ostfeld, Lou Patnode, and the ACME Ensemble

March 1993 - 3^rd Annual Seattle Fringe Theater Festival, Northwest School

A series of short plays inspired by the life and work of Charles Fort (1874-1932). ACME commissioned 5 playwrights to write about the man who devoted his life to attacking one of the modern age's most sacred cows - SCIENCE. He collected and published reliable accounts of events that science cannot explain: falls of fish and frogs, red snows, and disappearing planets. Rather than inhabiting a mechanistic, logical universe, he proposed that our world is prankish and unpredictable.

"A library myth that irritates me the most is the classification of books under 'fiction' and 'non-fiction.'"
-from Wild Tales by Charles Fort

A dog disappears into another dimension. A woman wishes for a baby and receives a ham. Teasing schoolchildren uncover the suspected yet unbelievable truth about the local outcast. A THIN, GREENISH VAPOR is:

MRS. CHARLES FORT by Nora Douglass
LOVE AS A SCIENCE by Courtney Baron
THE THIRD EYE by Stuart Ostfeld
WISHBOX by Lou Patnode
THE NATURE OF THINGS by David Golden