Perspectives / Adale O'Brien Adale O'Brien joined Actors' resident company in 1969, and since that time she has performed in 222 productions including 36 Humana world premieres. short story of a long history… it all began years ago at The Louisville Zoo…there was a man at the gate with a bullhorn yelling, “Does Anybody Here Do the Peabody?”…he said a Matrimonium ceremony for a couple of the animals was to take place at Sunset/Sunrise (they hadn’t decided which) and they needed some dancers…a lovely nun, Agnes of God, said she could do that dance…she was carrying a copy of The Autobiography of a Pearl Diver with Marks of coffee cup rings all over it…i stood there, Talking With her, when an Informer, eating a bunch of Grapes of Wrath, walked up and interrupted us to ask if we were from Neutral Countries…i squeezed the juice of some Lemons on his grapes (thinking it a fair Execution of Justice for his pushiness) when he suddenly yelled, “007 Crossfire”!!!…the nun and i hit the deck and i bumped my nose on a Root of Chaos at the base of a barren tree with only one Black Branch…then i noticed a newspaper lying on the ground…the headline read: extra!!! Smitty’s News!!!…No Mercy for Glimmerglass!!!…the article said glass had escaped – Whereabouts Unknown!!!…to recover we repaired to the nun’s cell across the street (a lovely Stained Glass window emitted little light) to check our Vital Signs…realizing we were In Darkest America, indeed, we decided to drive over to sunny Cementville and stop at Stanton’s Garage where my friend Betty the Yeti, manned (or woman-ed) the pumps…she was hysterical…she sobbed “Helen at Risk”…Helen, her buddy, had been hit Head On by some nut in a semi…his excuse for the accident had been “What I Meant Was” (a likely story!)…though Helen is not my Flesh and Blood i felt i should get to the bottom of this and hired half a dozen Private Eyes from the Mr. Bundy agency…they made a short Visitation to the semi driver and gave him a severe Reprimand…