“Is the thing seen or the thing heard the thing that makes most of its impression upon you at the theater?” asks David Greenspan, channeling Gertrude Stein in his one-man show The Myopia. Anyone who has seen the 68-year-old, six-time Obie Award winner perform live knows that both things can be simultaneously true. Or rather that, in the words of Mona Pirnot—whose new play, I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, pays homage to the multi-talented actor and playwright—“theater is not just about the thing seen and the thing heard: it’s also about the thing felt.”
Pirnot, 32, knew she wanted to be a playwright from an early age. Growing up in Sarasota—“an artsy pocket of Floria”—she poured her energy into writing Christmas plays with her family, performing dances at nursing homes, singing at farmers’ markets, and directing sketches for local community-theater groups.
