For a book-obsessed kid with a big imagination and a flair for drama, could anything be luckier than living in a library? Capturing her remarkable childhood and its impact, Sharon Washington's autobiographical Off-Broadway show brings its sense of wonder and bittersweet realism into your home and heart as an enthralling audio experience. Only from Audible, Feeding the Dragon celebrates the role of books in opening Washington's mind to worlds of possibilities - including a career in acting.
As part of our mission to offer listeners outstanding performances in contemporary theater, we are thrilled to present acclaimed stage actor Washington's debut as a playwright. Intimate and emotionally nuanced, Sharon Washington's reckoning of childhood, race, and memory is, as one listener says, a "feast for the creative soul."
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[From 1969 until 1973 my family lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan]***
(Audible Studios, 26 June 2018, 1 hour 17 minutes, bought from @audibleuk, free with membership for a limited time, performed by @SharonWashActor)
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I'd never heard of Sharon Washington before. As a book freak myself, I really wanted to know her story when I read the blurb. I loved listening to this. I was pulled right into her story and didn't want it to end. Feeding the Dragon covers some emotional and dark subject matter, particularly a young Sharon discovering her father was an alcoholic which clashed with her impression of him and her concept of alcoholics are bums who sit on street corners drinking out of brown paper bags. Can Sharon reconcile these two very different versions of the father she loves? This was very moving and incredibly sad. The dragon of the title is the coal burning fire in the library where her father worked and the family lived for many years. The fire is like a dragon to young Sharon, a monster breathing fire that her father needs to feed and satiate regularly. In one devastating scene, Sharon and her mother need to get the stove started before the librarians arrive because her father passed our drunk and didn't get up early to do it. This is incredibly moving and sad.
