Here is the transcription of my most recent video blog (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR MY SOLO SHOW):
(And here’s the audio on AnchorFM)
Hey everybody! This is Queen Mab, and I am going to apologize in advance for what may be only moderately coherent video, because I did not sleep very well last night, so I am not playing with an entirely full deck. Anyway, today I would to share with you an update to the story that I tell in my solo show, “Yes, No, Maybe So.” I’m going to be doing the show again on October 19 at 7:30pm Pacific time as part of Binge Fringe Festival at the Santa Monica Playhouse, so if you haven’t seen the show – or even if you have seen it, and you want to see it again – you can buy tickets online [ACTUALLY, IT’S FREE!]. I will post a link in the transcription below, and if you’re not in the LA area, you can watch from anywhere, so don’t let geographic location get in the way of your seeing the show if you would like to do it. And that’s going to be on October 19.
Now, I’m gonna talk a little bit about the ending of my show, so if you don’t want to know how it ends, this might be a good time to stop watching.
Still there? Okay. So for those of you who’ve seen the show, you know that it is about this creepy doctor’s appointment I had that led me to reexamine many of the times in my own life that I had violated someone else’s boundaries or had my own boundaries violated, and then I realized that I had a very weird reaction to the sexual harassment that I experienced, which led me to find out even more information about the doctor who sexually harassed me – namely, that he came from a family with a history of sexual violence. And then there was the issue of what to do with this information.
So in the show, my GP [general practitioner] encourages me to write a letter to the patient liaison, and I do it…and then…COVID plus the storming of the capitol. So I never hear anything about whether or not that letter was received or whether or not they did anything. And then at the end, one of my inner personae persuades me that I need to write an anonymous Yelp review. So I do that, and that’s how the show ends.
Now I was asked once in a talkback, “Could you please post the Yelp review?” And I had to admit that in real life, I did not actually post a Yelp review. And I have felt a great deal of guilt about that…about the fact that I’m performing the show, which is largely autobiographical, but the ending didn’t really happen. And I’ve written a draft, and I’ve gone round and round about whether or not I’m actually going to post it. I’ve talked to all my friends. They’re all sick of hearing about it. And we’re about to come up on the year anniversary of that appointment, so I was thinking, “Gosh, well, maybe I should go ahead and do it.”
Well, here is the new development. Yesterday in the mail, I got a letter with the return address of the healthcare company. And I opened it up, and I saw that it was a letter from the practice of this neurologist. And I kind of went, “Ughhh!” But then I looked at it, and this is what it said:
“Dear Patient – After 21 wonderful years in neurology at (covers mouth with hand and mumbles name), I will be resigning from the medical group on December 22, 2021.”
What a relief. I don’t have to write the Yelp review. They took care of it.
So there will be this aspect in which my show is not completely true to life, but I’m okay with that, and I’m really grateful that the people that I talked to – that my GP and that the patient liaison believed me. I suspect that they had a hand in this. I am a little concerned that he might go practice somewhere else, but I really think I did what I could do, and I’m hesitant to put myself out there on Yelp in that very public way.
So anyway, thank you very much for your support. Thank you for seeing the show, and if you like my content and you want to know more about other shows I’ve done or other music I’ve created, you can visit queenmabmusic.com. Don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe…and I’ll see you tomorrow. Bye!