Ann Marie has an epiphany on the subway. She leaves a lucrative career in advertising to teach poetry and escape the "bourgeois narcotics factory." She winds up teaching at Staten Island Community College where she is stalked by an obsessive student and harassed by everyone else. A black comedy that takes on poets, professors, students, sexy baristas and shrinks.
Those Who Can, Do was started in the summer of 1999 as part of a residency at Anna Deavere Smith's Institute on Art and Civic Dialogue. Over the next four years Ms. Mullins rewrote and revisited the material. During the summer of 2003 she had a residency at MacDowell Colony, and brought what was at that point a 200-plus-page manuscript that was carved into three plays, a trilogy about Teaching in America. The first part of the trilogy is Those Who Can, Do which had a workshop production at Clubbed Thumb Theatre during the summer of 2004; Maria Mileaf directed.
Cast
Ann Marie .................................................................................................... Crystal Finn
Celia ....................................................................................................... Robin Galloway
Marion .................................................................................................... Jessie Austrian
Dr. K. ........................................................................................................... Mark Cohen
