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- Dmae Lo Roberts
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- Location: Portland, Oregon
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- "The School of Hard Knocks"
- Summary: When KC was eleven her mother kicked her and one of her sisters out of the house. Forced to figure out how to survive on her own, she turned to drug dealing and prostitution. KC was incarcerated at the time of this production, so the only way to speak with her sisters was via phone.
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Review of The First Time I Left Home
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on October 26, 2005 at 07:22 AM
A very moody almost dream-like approach makes this piece stand out. Two sisters reveal how they both were kicked out of the house when they were kids because of abuse. It's a poignant and brutally honest piece and it really keeps your attention. What would have made this piece better is the use of the phone interviews. I realize the KC's sisters are far away so the phone had to be used. But they come on with statements rather than conversations with KC. I think this would have worked better if she had been recalling the horrible past with her sisters. Still this is a haunting and an unsual youth-produced piece.