The Brits at the Bar: Monica Price, Writer of Survive!

Friday November 18th was the date of the Dallas Art Crawl. Basically the DMA, Opera house and Nasher Sculpture Center were all open late for buisness. Cody Waits and I attended the extravaganza and saw John Mudd's band Ishi before we hit the scene. They sounded pretty solid, but it seemed they were playing to a track?  Were they actually playing? The crowd ate it up anyway. We then headed into a packed DMA. If you haven't seen the Jean Paul Gautier exhibit at the Dallas Musem of Art yet... you are seriously missing out. The exhibit is by far the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. The craftsmanship, attention to detail and utter disregard for conventionality is completely breathtaking. Thats really all I can say about it right now. After seeing the exhibit Cody and I walked over to our normal haunt, The Fairmont Hotel bar.  While ordering we met two lovely ladies from across the pond. Over a gin/ apple juice we talked British culture, funny accents and eventually got to the always fun subject of the Oasis brothers. Turns out one of the lovely ladies, a miss Monica Price is a playwrite. She just finished a new black comedy called "Survive!". Her comedy deals with the dark issue of cancer as several people find hope in places least expected and ultimately "Survive!" The play is patroned by Dame Judi Dench, (M in the James Bond Movies post 1995) and endorsed by none other than Liam Gallagher, the lovely former singer of Oasis. Monica showed us pictures of her and Liam hanging out earlier that week. You just never know who your going to meet over gin! For all you Londoners/Oasis fans, there will be a charity auction held on Monday, December 5th athe the Sanctum Soho Hotel in London. At this auction a wonderful signed painting of Liam will be sold to the highest bidder. All interesed parties should Email Monica at: Monica@monica-price.co.uk
If you're interested in seeing the play check out http://www.surviveshow.com/
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