Performing on Fingers & Spoons
I am excited to have my music featured as the soundtrack to playwright and performer Pascale Roger-McKeever’s Fingers & Spoons, a new play written and performed by Pascale Roger-McKeever and directed by Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton. The show begins previews on Thursday, April 25, 2024, and is set to open on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at the SoHo Playhouse in New York City , and takes the audience on an honest, gutsy, and funny journey through a wife and mother’s exhilarating and unnerving experiments with love and sexuality.
A mid-40s mom accepts her husband’s invitation to an open marriage and proceeds with a singleness of purpose no one saw coming. A journey that deflates, prods, pokes and has fun with the little fallacies we carefully curate to better foster our socially permissible selves. Provocative in its exploration of human vulnerability, the play acknowledges and embraces the acute discomfort of living out our inescapable sexuality – a shameless exploration of shame itself, this one-woman play turns many notions of self-empowerment on their head.
Roger-McKeever says, “I am an actor and a writer which is inevitably a confrontation with the self. That’s how I make sense of my life and what I start with. This latest confrontation started as a dare to write honestly about a sexual encounter that took on a life of its own. But that is just the door I happened to step through. Because sex itself is such a powerful and primal experience and probably the deepest exploration of self that most of us undertake in our lifetimes, each step I took toward it demanded that I open myself up a little further until it just seemed right to shape it into a play and step out and unto a stage – and here’s the kicker: this happened at 44, while enjoying all dimensions of motherhood, so I roar, ‘Age, bring it on! And go, Moms!’”
This very particular and surprisingly universal story of a trip beyond the pale of convention takes place at the SoHo Playhouse, located at 15 Vandam St. New York, NY 10013.
Previews: April 25th – April 28th
Opening Night: Thursday, May 2nd
Performance Schedule: May 2nd – June 2nd (Thursdays – Saturdays, 7pm, Sundays, 2pm)
Run time: 80 Min
