Busy, Busy, BUSY weekend!
Sep. 9th, 2013 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsLet me explain. No, is too much. Let me sum up:
Friday night was a live production of Neverwhere. I had expected something experimental and community-theater-y; it was very experimental, but the acting was brilliant. Mr. Kroop gave me the shivers just standing there! The experimental part was the staging - not so much theater in the round as theater in sensurround. The audience sat in a ring, and the action took place in the center, along the walls, and on platforms on all 4 corners. There was a lot of role doubling, but it worked in the slightly surreal, slightly abstract presentation. (There was a lot of puppetry; the rat was a muppet on a stick, while the beast was a collaborative thing made out of bits and bobs and half the cast.) The story was necessarily condensed even beyond the radio version, but not ripped into shreds. Just an amazing night of theater!
Saturday morning was a quickie run to the Book Thing, followed by a quick washup to scoot over to Riversdale Mansion, which was having a Summer Sips program, pairing period food and drinks in an al fresco luncheon in the garden. It's the sort of thing I'd usually pay to attend; this time I was behind the scenes helping plate, serve, pick up, wash, and (because I was the sole official Kitchen Guild person there) doing the dog and pony show for Principles Of Open Hearth Cooking in the detached kitchen.
That left me so knackered that there was barely the time or energy to get ready for the mass birthday party for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shawan_7, boogiebabe_smap, maureen_the_mad and fandance on Sunday.
Today's going to be equally rushed - I need to get ahold of my general handyman and plumber and tell him that my parents, as a birthday present to me, are going to foot the entire bill for him to pull out the nasty fiberglass fake tile in my bathroom and put in real tile.
Friday night was a live production of Neverwhere. I had expected something experimental and community-theater-y; it was very experimental, but the acting was brilliant. Mr. Kroop gave me the shivers just standing there! The experimental part was the staging - not so much theater in the round as theater in sensurround. The audience sat in a ring, and the action took place in the center, along the walls, and on platforms on all 4 corners. There was a lot of role doubling, but it worked in the slightly surreal, slightly abstract presentation. (There was a lot of puppetry; the rat was a muppet on a stick, while the beast was a collaborative thing made out of bits and bobs and half the cast.) The story was necessarily condensed even beyond the radio version, but not ripped into shreds. Just an amazing night of theater!
Saturday morning was a quickie run to the Book Thing, followed by a quick washup to scoot over to Riversdale Mansion, which was having a Summer Sips program, pairing period food and drinks in an al fresco luncheon in the garden. It's the sort of thing I'd usually pay to attend; this time I was behind the scenes helping plate, serve, pick up, wash, and (because I was the sole official Kitchen Guild person there) doing the dog and pony show for Principles Of Open Hearth Cooking in the detached kitchen.
That left me so knackered that there was barely the time or energy to get ready for the mass birthday party for
shawan_7, boogiebabe_smap, maureen_the_mad and fandance on Sunday.Today's going to be equally rushed - I need to get ahold of my general handyman and plumber and tell him that my parents, as a birthday present to me, are going to foot the entire bill for him to pull out the nasty fiberglass fake tile in my bathroom and put in real tile.
