Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy: How we became sisters
Felice Belle et Jennifer Murphy: Comment nous sommes devenues sœurs
Felice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes. Full bioJennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined. Full bio
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and Jennifer Murphy
et Jennifer Murphy
from their play "Other Women,"
« Une autre femme »,
by Monica L. Williams,
and Jennifer Murphy.
et Jennifer Murphy.
of the rest of your life.
pour le reste de votre vie.
is worth more than it will ever be.
vous possédez a plus de valeur maintenant.
pour San Francisco.
et un tee-shirt slim rouge,
d'un dispensaire de Los Angeles,
bed and breakfast hillside fire pit
du brasero d'un hôtel sur les collines
and vineyard view.
et une vue sur les vignobles.
bags of burgers.
sit at the blackjack table,
asseyez-vous à la table de blackjack,
connu pour être si froid
conserver un corps en parfait état.
and possibly a monster like Loch Ness --
et peut-être le monstre du Loch Ness.
votre attention.
Quand le rêve était une idée,
When the dream was a notion,
where NASA tested space ships.
où la NASA testait les vaisseaux spatiaux.
but it kept being delayed.
mais elle attendait son heure.
in a bed of wrecked strawberries.
sa mère sur un lit de fraises pourries.
took endless drives over the grapevine
sans fin dans les vignes
with oranges and silence,
d'oranges et de silence.
you feared for its life.
qu'on eût craint pour sa vie.
on its face and crush it.
atterrir sur son visage et l'anéantir.
to love something so much.
quelque chose autant.
on your neighbor's rose bushes.
sur les rosiers du voisin.
et de nicotine,
reading the "Easter Parade"
la Parade de printemps
as a waitress at a restaurant
serveuse dans un restaurant
it had better things to do.
elle avait de meilleures choses à faire.
dispatch fleets of messages to God
une multitude de messages à Dieu
itself known in daylight.
au grand jour.
publish, get rich, publish,
de devenir riche, de publier,
in the backseats of taxis,
avec des hommes séduisants et téméraires.
non, ce n'est pas vrai.
with the truth.
avec la vérité.
the dream had you.
le rêve nous possède.
of its plans fell through.
« Je démissionne ».
it heard its name being called.
ce qu'elle entende finalement son nom.
of sticking around long enough to be seen.
de rester assez longtemps pour être vue.
who've waited years for its arrival.
qui ont attendu des années son arrivée.
don't they, your girls?
vos copines, n'est-ce pas ?
and belief in you,
et leur confiance en vous,
"No maps, no idea where we're headed."
« pas de carte, aucune idée d'où on va ».
cannot believe this is happening,
croire ce qu'il se passe,
hallucinating with fear,
je suis prête, allons-y ! »
how we became sisters.
comment nous sommes devenues sœurs.
Like we're a married couple.
comme si on était mariées.
qu'on s'est rencontrées en ligne.
Poets Café in 1999.
au Nuyorican Poets Café en 1999.
spent in the audience or on the mic.
jeunesse dans le public ou sur scène.
about the poet who killed it.
parler du poète qui a déchiré.
on the lap of my archnemesis.
assise sur les genoux de ma pire ennemie.
with someone you don't like?
que tu n'aimes pas ?
size me up and spit me out
me jaugent et crachent sur moi
before I've said one word.
avant même que je ne dise un mot.
before investigation" comes to mind.
« condamné sans procès ».
she believes in science and math,
aux sciences et aux maths,
with logic, like a man.
comme un homme.
lot of fairness and justice,
d'impartialité et de justice,
d'ouverture d'esprit.
she only plays one onstage.
elle l'est uniquement sur scène.
I say it as a private investigator,
je le dis en tant que détective privé,
doesn't need a license.
besoin d'un agrément.
detective work, I learned on TV.
je l'ai appris à la télé.
in the basement of Two Boots pizzeria.
dans la cave de la pizzeria Two Boots.
we have a slice.
on a mangé un morceau.
something I hadn't told anyone.
un truc que je n'ai jamais dit à personne.
with Nacho Velasquez.
avec Nacho Velasquez.
after I was diagnosed with cancer.
après que mon cancer a été diagnostiqué.
because my family wasn't handy.
Kettering car ma famille ne m'aidait pas.
le centre Sloan Kettering
ma sœur aussi heureuse.
un centre de cancérologie.
with carved faces and missing ears.
décomposé et avec des oreilles en moins.
little packets of graham crackers.
des petits paquets de biscuits.
sweating through my dress,
transpirant dans ma robe,
à ce moment-là.
there is a transit strike.
il y a une grève des transports.
to Crown Heights
jusqu'à Crown Heights
and this one is key.
et celui-là est décisif.
no car service, no bus,
ni voiture, ni bus,
just to be by my side.
juste pour être à mes côtés.
« C'est l'heure du bibimpab »,
I'm having a meltdown."
je n'en peux plus ».
Nacho Velasquez,"
Nacho Velasquez ? »,
around our friendship again.
de la confiance de notre amitié.
and she is in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
et elle est à Bedford-Stuyvesant.
and she is in Paris, writing.
et elle à Paris en train d'écrire.
sun-glassed and hoodied,
des lunettes de soleil et une capuche,
to the right soundtrack.
pour une bande-son.
having flashbacks to 9/11,
à repenser au 11 septembre,
de votre ami,
in the North Tower.
sa vie dans la Tour Nord.
de dire au revoir.
you are asleep and she is calling.
que vous dormez et qu'elle vous appelle.
quelqu'un est mort ? »
your boyfriend, the cop, got shot
copain, le flic, a reçu une balle
the depth and calm of a windless lake.
et le calme d'une mer d'huile.
and remains very quiet and very kind.
silencieuse et bienveillante.
pour surmonter ça.
"Let's see each other this week,"
« On se voit cette semaine »,
and talk on the phone instead."
et on s'appelle à la place. »
reminded me of you,"
ça m'a fait penser à toi »,
of her and then you.
penser à elle, puis à toi.
guided meditations again,
de la méditation guidée,
some spiritual-wisdom-type shit
de sagesse spirituelle
each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
chaque minute comme un miracle unique.
with the constancy of dawn.
battiez avec la constance de l'aube.
JM: What's wrong with you?
JM : Que t'arrive-t-il ?
would raise their hands and say,
auraient levé la main et dit :
à toutes les deux ? »
because she was having surgery.
Paris car elle se faisait opérer.
un de tes gros chagrins d'amour,
on Fulton Street.
avec toi à Fulton Street.
two decades, two women, one dream.
deux décennies, deux femmes, un rêve.
and wonderfully made."
si merveilleuse. »
you're done with that MFA."
les Beaux-Arts. »
ce foutu rêve soit enfin terminé,
thank God that pesky dream is finished,
to peeling potatoes and shucking corn.
les pommes de terre et égrainer le maïs.
when your play premieres
à la première de sa pièce
agrees to send out your stories.
un agent accepte de diffuser ses récits.
romantic and spiritual victories.
romantiques et spirituelles.
des jeunes filles qui deviennent
of becoming when they grew up.
quand elles étaient petites.
is poetry to the beloved.
ce que la poésie est aux amoureux.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Felice Belle - Poet, playwright, pop culture enthusiastFelice Belle consumes and creates stories to make sense of the world and her place in it. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.
Why you should listen
Felice Belle is a poet, playwright and pop culture enthusiast. She has performed at Joe’s Pub, the Apollo Theater and the American Museum of Natural History. Belle was a featured poet at TED’s City2.0 conference and her young audiences play, Game On!, premiered at the Kennedy Center as part of the One Mic: Hip Hop Culture Worldwide festival.
Belle co-wrote and performs alongside Jennifer Murphy in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what’s fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.
Belle holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, an M.A. in Individualized Study from NYU’s Gallatin School and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island University. She spends her free time solving fictional crimes.
Felice Belle | Speaker | TED.com
Jennifer Murphy - Writer, performer, private investigator
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer, performer and private investigator who spends her time solving crimes -- some real, some imagined.
Why you should listen
Jennifer Murphy is an award-winning writer and performer whose work has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies. A recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award honoring excellence in multicultural literature, she has performed at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Knitting Factory and The Nuyorican Poets Café, among other performance venues. Murphy also maintains a parallel career as a private investigator, specializing in online investigations and threat monitoring for high-consequence events.
Murphy co-wrote and performs alongside Felice Belle in Other Women, a two-woman show about the enduring nature of sisterhood that interrogates ideas about women as artists, lovers, and friends. A unique theatrical experience with stories, poems and images, Other Women invites audiences to choose what’s real, what's fantasy, and what lies between. Other Women was created by Monica L. Williams and produced by #LoveHustle, a global dialogue and performance series.
Jennifer Murphy | Speaker | TED.com