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Down and Safe
Aug. 5th, 2007 06:13 pmThe serendipity carried us through - ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennetj and I made it to our flights on time despite a horrible backup at the Peace Bridge, and I even got my checked luggage ("Oh, how cute," the ticket agent cooed at the Barbie Memorial Suitcase) just in time to make it to the earlier bus to my place. Yay!
Am now stuffed on spaghetti and trying to catch up on scary amounts of email and internet stuff.
Shakespeare's Will:
I worried about this play when I saw that the script was written
in the sort
of blank modern verse
with one
or two or three
words per line.
I hate that.
Fortunately, Seana McKenna has riveted me from the moment she first took the stage as Medea 7 years ago. The play is basically her talking to the audience, replaying bits of her life as Anne Hathaway on the day she buried Shakespeare, with flashbacks. She keeps snapping about "your sister Joan, the bitch," which makes for pretty powerful foreshadowing if you are familiar with Shakespeare's actual will. However, much of the rest of the action is based on supposition and twisted history, which I'm always ambivalent about. So I'm going to say this one is a powerful performance with a wobbly text.
Favorite memory - right at the end, a when we all knew it was the end but the second before the lights dropped so Seana could take her curtain call, someone in the audience very loudly said, "Wow!"
Lear - no cut because I have very little to say. It was a well-done Lear, but it broke no new ground and had no extraordinary thing to say about it. Scott The First (the first of my actor crushes named Scott) did a great job as Gloucester.
Sunday 7 Yes, even traveling, I managed to do it. Go me. I will be freecycling an overnighter bag and a wallet on account of having replaced them in Canada. (I should be freecyling a purse too for the same reason, but I'm going to hang onto it, as you never know. It's a nice midway size between the one I had, the one I bought, and my largest duffle-sized one.) I put two of the books that I'd taken into the B&B bookshelf for someone else to enjoy. And I tossed assorted toiletries (soap, shampoo, conditioner) because such things only ever make one-way trips.
There's thunder outside, so I don't know how long I'll be on. But I'm home and catching up, electronics willing.
jennetj and I made it to our flights on time despite a horrible backup at the Peace Bridge, and I even got my checked luggage ("Oh, how cute," the ticket agent cooed at the Barbie Memorial Suitcase) just in time to make it to the earlier bus to my place. Yay!Am now stuffed on spaghetti and trying to catch up on scary amounts of email and internet stuff.
Shakespeare's Will:
I worried about this play when I saw that the script was written
in the sort
of blank modern verse
with one
or two or three
words per line.
I hate that.
Fortunately, Seana McKenna has riveted me from the moment she first took the stage as Medea 7 years ago. The play is basically her talking to the audience, replaying bits of her life as Anne Hathaway on the day she buried Shakespeare, with flashbacks. She keeps snapping about "your sister Joan, the bitch," which makes for pretty powerful foreshadowing if you are familiar with Shakespeare's actual will. However, much of the rest of the action is based on supposition and twisted history, which I'm always ambivalent about. So I'm going to say this one is a powerful performance with a wobbly text.
Favorite memory - right at the end, a when we all knew it was the end but the second before the lights dropped so Seana could take her curtain call, someone in the audience very loudly said, "Wow!"
Lear - no cut because I have very little to say. It was a well-done Lear, but it broke no new ground and had no extraordinary thing to say about it. Scott The First (the first of my actor crushes named Scott) did a great job as Gloucester.
Sunday 7 Yes, even traveling, I managed to do it. Go me. I will be freecycling an overnighter bag and a wallet on account of having replaced them in Canada. (I should be freecyling a purse too for the same reason, but I'm going to hang onto it, as you never know. It's a nice midway size between the one I had, the one I bought, and my largest duffle-sized one.) I put two of the books that I'd taken into the B&B bookshelf for someone else to enjoy. And I tossed assorted toiletries (soap, shampoo, conditioner) because such things only ever make one-way trips.
There's thunder outside, so I don't know how long I'll be on. But I'm home and catching up, electronics willing.
