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By M. SEAN KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Julie Portman and Paul Reisler will be in the limelight again this Saturday night when television cameras are pointed at Ki Theatre’s small stage.
Robert Farr of the Gunston Arts Center in Arlington will recording both parts of Ms. Portman’s “My Family’s Album” before a live audience at 8 p.m. In the two one-act monologues Ms. Portman explores her relationship with her parents.
“The words in both of these plays come right out of their mouths; my parents have written these plays themselves,” she said. “I have selected and shaped the words to give the audience the best possible idea of their nature. All we can do is try to be honest with a person’s nature,” she adeed.
In the opening story called “Katie Malone”, Ms. Portman uses an old hat box containing a pair of shoes, a purse and a silk dress to give form and substance to her memories of her mother, a professional musician and church organist. “These stories are about an American family, about marriage relationships, about issues that are important for women today,” she said.
“My mother was an independent woman for many years before she married and I always knew that my family life was a little different from my friends’,” she explained.
The second story is titled "Dad.” Its central prop is the well-worn text of a book he. wrote (but never published) on teaching voice.
“I have been working with stories for many years and did some (personal) stories of my own childhood in Boston maybe 12 years ago. The response was startling to me but no one was doing it then,” she said. “It is only within the last three to four years that you can see per
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