BoyGirlBoyGirl Production History
BoyGirlBoyGirl
BoyGirlBoyGirl Production History
THE NEW, MORE THRILLING SECRETS
The battered copy of a now-defunct true romance magazine sported cover stories with titles like "WE USED TO THRILL EACH OTHER: NOW MY HUSBAND DIDN'T DARE COME NEAR ME" and "WHEN MY HUSBAND'S MIND SNAPPED: MORE THAN A NORMAL WIFE COULD BEAR". BoyGirlBoyGirl's inaugural effort responded with four tales about the hidden and/or suppressed corners of their lives.
“This Moment of Twilight” by David Kodeski
“A Comforting Detail” by Stephanie Shaw
My Season in Hell” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“My New, More Thrilling Secret” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
THE FINE ART OF ITALIAN COOKING
Giuliano Bugialli's 1990 cookbook was a loving and poetic tribute to one of the world's great national cuisines. BoyGirlBoyGirl served up four lip-smacking stories about food, glorious food.
“Transparent Seaweed” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“Stuffed Shells” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
“Final Night” by David Kodeski
Octopus” by Stephanie Shaw
BRITNEY'S MAN DANCES FOR HIS SUPPER
Fleeting fame, sudden notoriety, and a large number of expletives run rampant through Kevin Federline's March 2005 interview for Details magazine. BoyGirlBoyGirl mined their own misspent youths for four narratives about those allegedly formative years.
“Guts and Goo” by Stephanie Shaw
“Procrustean Prom” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“The Man in the Moon is a Lady” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
“Lorraine's Hit the Bottle Again” by David Kodeski
ZEST FOR GLOOM
The life and work of craggy Irish playwright Samuel Beckett served as the jumping off point for five reflections on unrequited love, theater, death, and waiting, waiting, waiting…
“Chicago Impromptu” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“The Fall” by Diana Slickman
“The Words that Remain” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
“Freeze Effect” by Rachel Claff
“Kodeski Krapps at Last” by David Kodeski
CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON A CHESTNUT ROASTER
The holidays in all their gory glory provide the starting point for these stories about Christmases remembered, revered, relished, and dreaded.
“Remembrance of Things Dipped ” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“The Stalker” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
“We Spoke of the Millennium Briefly Over Lunch” by Rachel Claff
Here Come the Holidays” by Diana Slickman
“Xmas in December” by David Kodeski
THE DISTANCE OF THE MOON
The first story of Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics" tells the poignant story of a man in love with a woman in love with another man in love with the moon. BoyGirlBoyGirl tells six stories about star-crossed loves and their relation to the cosmos.
“Constellations” by Edward Thomas-Herrera
“Gravity” by Stephanie Shaw
“Footprints in the Sand” by Susan McLaughlin Karp
“How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World” by Rachel Claff
“Flatlander” by Diana Slickman
“Earth Day” by David Kodeski
XV-XVI CENTURY NORTHERN DRAWINGS FROM THE ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION 1978
Biblical heroines and anthropomorphic pillows populate an exhibition catalogue of Renaissance drawings from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. BoyGirlBoyGirl paints four highly individual portraits of the visual world around us.
“Dog. Chair. Spike.’ by Diana Slickman
“How to Draw a Boulder” by David Kodeski
“Six Pillows” by Rachel Claff
“Return of the Black Rose” by Edward Thomas-Herrera