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"We were worried in the beginning that Boise was going to be so conservative that they wouldn't like me. We didn't know anything about [Boise]," [Lauren Weedman] said. "Could I say 'f***'? Plus, BUST had a lot of non-white characters. Would they feel uncomfortable because they're aware that they're in such a white area? There's a lot of guilt about that."
What Boise authences saw in BUST wasn't a world premiere. Weedman had already performed it, and even with concerns she'd be facing ultra-conservative audiences, she knew the material worked. While Shutup doesn't deal with such controversial subject matter, is still risky for her because it's new. The kind of new that has Weedman scrapping most of her original ideas for the play and overhauling it just days before opening night and the kind of risky that has her trying to present less autobiographical, personal material than she usually does."Up until last night, I was resisting telling a personal story. I know Boise thinks I'm funny; I do comedy. So, the first draft of it, I wrote like a big comedy wack-a-doodle. I did a run-through yesterday and was like, 'This is so irritating.' And I'm not telling a story," she said. "I do have something I want to tell, but it's about having a baby, and that seems like such a cheesy subject. Having a baby? Why not? Everybody does it. So I had to go into the issues of why not to have a baby."See the full content of this document
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Yes...You Keep Talking
Lauren Weedman is naturally funny. Her humor is not forced, it's not faked, and it's only sometimes rehearsed ... like for the world premiere of her new one-woman show, No...You Shutup, commissioned by Boise Contemporary ...
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