On Monday, April 14 at 8pm, at The St. Andrews Bar and Grill, I will do again what I have done twice before: read a chapter from my book in progress, The Starting Gate, to a small group of close friends, so I can hear it out loud and also gather their reactions.
Turns out, I need this process. I need the connection. And if this need is a holdover from my theatre days, when every script of mine went through an extended iterative process of private, then semi-private and then fully public readings, then so be it. I see no sense in doing something for over a quarter of century only to willfully abandon every trick I’ve learned.
For those of you who couldn’t make the first two readings, here’s what you missed:
Chapter One “The Gate”: I introduce the dominant setting of the book, the Starting Gate, which was the country town bar I basically grew up in, working as a stock boy there, along with my older brother, from the age 13 until 17.
Chapter Two “The Crease and The Hatter” :I remember the two next bars I worked at before I was old enough to legally drink, one just outside of Baltimore, the other on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Chapter 3, “The Perfect Experiment” is what I will be reading on April 14. It’s a bit of a departure from the trajectory so far of bars worked and drank in. In it, I give a brief history of my family and how we came to be, well, who we are: from my father, the first Paul Mullin, to the one we wound up with. I sometimes think of it as my Mulliniad in SparkNotes.
So come to the St. Andrews on Aurora if you can. It’s free! Have a drink (or a few) and maybe a nosh, too. The whole process is painless (relatively) and done in a half an hour. (How often can you say that about theatre?)
When: Monday, April 14 at 8pm
Where: The St. Andrews Bar and Grill, 7406 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, Washington
Who: Me and you and probably a few others you know
How: Quick and dirty.
Why: Why not?
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