1977  “For Verable,”  March 25 (Check program dates?…GW was 1976? and WPAS 1977?
Female duet, concerned with the tragic alteration of the loving and devoted husband and wife, family of four children.

First Performance:  Marvin Theatre, Washington, DC.  (Date?  1976?)
Premiere:  Washington Project for the Arts (March 25, 1977) (Confirm date – WPA archive)

Program:
Choreography and set design: Maida Withers
Dancers:  Ellen Lang and Jean Isaacs
Music: John Driscoll
Live radio and Police radio: Ellen Lang, on stage, randomly
Costumes: Beth Burkhardt (beige opaque A-line dress for Ellen and beige body leotard for Jean)

Photo contact sheet  (duet, with window frame)

There is a written script (locate script).

Maida Withers Notes:
A female duet created in recognition of the separation and eventual divorce of two dear friends, parents of children, good friends of my children. The duet places the woman inside her home environment with a window, radio, and bed springs suspended in the space. The work has the lead solo figure, Ellen Lang (GWU undergraduate dancer), in a dream world of herself as a sexually attractive woman questioning why her husband was staying out all night with another woman.   Downstage, Jean Isaacs, dances as the imagined “dream self” – outside of the confines of home and marriage. The  window on stage changes from day light to night light  marking, in time, the waiting and worrying, finding distractions, by the betrayed wife…

Original Sony reel to reel video transfer is too dark for public use.

Repertory:  For Verabel, Three’s Company, San Diego, California, 1977.

Jean Isaac was the subject for the drawing by John Bailey, Founding Member of MWDCCo and visual artist. (1974)