A Day Off
Well, it has been a week since my last post and if I'm going to honor my "once a week" claim I guess I better say something. Today is the 4th of July - Independence Day - which I celebrated by not setting an alarm. It has been a busy time these past few months and today is the first day in at least a month I have no obligations (other than spending time with friends and that's a pleasure not an obligation). What amazes me about me is that I spend all my busy time wishing I had free time to do this or that and when I get free time I squander it on the couch watching old TV programs on DVD. On the other hand there's a lot to be said for spending time at home with Shane and the dog and cat.
One of the hard things about getting started with this blog is not knowing where to start. So much has happened in the past few months alone that I find myself trying to decide what to chronicle first, or at all. With that in mind a brief overview then, perhaps more detail later.
In April & May I directed a production called Aesop's Runaway Fable for Theatre for Young People - my last for this company as it exists now (more on that later). The show was a joy and I was very proud of the overall production. While the show was in production I was also working on the Three Barons Renaissance Fair which performed the first two weekends in June. At the fair I perform as a member of the Blue Court in Akbar & Amid's Circus of the Damned. I also direct a work from Shakespeare for the Tomato Show. Between the two performance weekends of the fair staff started to arrive for the summer theatre program that I oversee. The Tuesday after the fair students began the program and that Friday I drove to Valdez for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. I spent a week in Valdez during which time I directed a production for the Overnighters (fully realized performances written & produced in 24 hours), helped produce and directed two shows in an evening of original works presented by TBA Theatre) and read in several of the plays being presented in the play lab. At the end of the week we drove back to Anchorage (stopping to admire the scenery a few times) and the next morning I returned to work at the theatre. It was now production week and we had a few late nights on top of the regular workday, which brings us thru Saturday July 1, and the last show of our first three-week session. By now new staff is coming in, new paperwork is going out as we're preparing for another three-week camp that starts on Monday. The good news is that Sunday is mostly a day off, however I serve as the chorister at my church and that starts at 9am so...that pesky alarm clock rings at 7:30. After church, which was a joy to return to after two weeks in Valdez, even if I still had to set an alarm, a nice nap and then some time with friends at Matt's house. (More on Matt and his incredible generosity later). Then Monday alarm at 6:15am and the first day of session two of our program! After a full day and a half of work an escape to see the new Superman movie with friends. Then...
...home to sleep and NOT set an alarm. So you can see how a day off is much appreciated! And now I'm off to my friend Leif's to enjoy the day, the fireworks and my indepence from a day of work!
Well, that pretty much sums it up for the State of Schmertopia as of July 4, 2006. Happy Independence Day to all!
One of the hard things about getting started with this blog is not knowing where to start. So much has happened in the past few months alone that I find myself trying to decide what to chronicle first, or at all. With that in mind a brief overview then, perhaps more detail later.
In April & May I directed a production called Aesop's Runaway Fable for Theatre for Young People - my last for this company as it exists now (more on that later). The show was a joy and I was very proud of the overall production. While the show was in production I was also working on the Three Barons Renaissance Fair which performed the first two weekends in June. At the fair I perform as a member of the Blue Court in Akbar & Amid's Circus of the Damned. I also direct a work from Shakespeare for the Tomato Show. Between the two performance weekends of the fair staff started to arrive for the summer theatre program that I oversee. The Tuesday after the fair students began the program and that Friday I drove to Valdez for the Last Frontier Theatre Conference. I spent a week in Valdez during which time I directed a production for the Overnighters (fully realized performances written & produced in 24 hours), helped produce and directed two shows in an evening of original works presented by TBA Theatre) and read in several of the plays being presented in the play lab. At the end of the week we drove back to Anchorage (stopping to admire the scenery a few times) and the next morning I returned to work at the theatre. It was now production week and we had a few late nights on top of the regular workday, which brings us thru Saturday July 1, and the last show of our first three-week session. By now new staff is coming in, new paperwork is going out as we're preparing for another three-week camp that starts on Monday. The good news is that Sunday is mostly a day off, however I serve as the chorister at my church and that starts at 9am so...that pesky alarm clock rings at 7:30. After church, which was a joy to return to after two weeks in Valdez, even if I still had to set an alarm, a nice nap and then some time with friends at Matt's house. (More on Matt and his incredible generosity later). Then Monday alarm at 6:15am and the first day of session two of our program! After a full day and a half of work an escape to see the new Superman movie with friends. Then...
...home to sleep and NOT set an alarm. So you can see how a day off is much appreciated! And now I'm off to my friend Leif's to enjoy the day, the fireworks and my indepence from a day of work!
Well, that pretty much sums it up for the State of Schmertopia as of July 4, 2006. Happy Independence Day to all!
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