Thank you, Dark | Estro insights with Molly Kirschner
- EstroGenius NYC
- Mar 6
- 2 min read
We are thrilled to be co-producing Molly Kirschner's THANK YOU, DARK with our friends at Frigid NY. Molly is sharing this show as a fundraiser for EstroGenius, thus the tickets on a higher scale - but the scale goes high and low - purchase the ticket you need!
Then read a little more about her long-term relationship with us, and with theater.
We asked Molly a few questions to share a little bit of the depth of her relationship to EstroGenius and why reading poetry aloud matters.
ESTRO What is it that reading aloud offers you and your work?
MOLLY It is one of the most profound joys to read to people; to offer my poems with the immediacy exclusive to live performance; to facilitate a collective experience through language. When I read aloud, I strive to call audience members home to themselves and to each other.
ESTRO What are one or two of your favorite EstroGenius memories?
MOLLY Since 2019, EstroGenius has been a home for my new work--both poetry and plays!
In 2023, an actor in my new play Bipolar Brunch had to drop out of the reading, and I ended up having to replace her. Standing onstage and performing this role with which I so closely identified inspired me to write a solo show, which I subsequently presented for EstroGenius.
Melissa This resulting play was Molly's solo show that we produced last year at Under St. Mark's - the whole experience was incredibly special, with her director being her equally brilliant mother, Deb Margolin! (who btw has a show opening at Dixon Place this weekend)
ESTRO Is there something specific you are excited about with these new poems?
MOLLY In the theater, when the lightboard operator needs to turn off all the lights, the convention demands that she call out, "Going dark!", to which the de rigueur response from the cast and crew is, "Thank you, dark!"
I grew up in the theater. In fact, as a recent college graduate I worked for Horse Trade Theater Group, and as artist-factotum part of my job was running the box office for shows at UNDER St. Marks Theater, and mopping the stage. (For the latter task I used the "Navy Method" which I learned from Holly Gettings at the Ko Festival of Performance.)
UNDER St. Marks has been my sanctuary since 2016, through every shade of darkness and every hue of light. With these new poems, I would like to make an offering to the dark as we move toward spring.
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