Hiya

[collisionwork]

I'm here, and so's Berit. The first weekend of our crazy August schedule is almost over. Spell and Harry in Love have opened. Harry, as mentioned, had a rocky first show but went well last night. Spell had a damned good first show and goes up again tonight.

This afternoon, and the following two afternoons and evenings, we get Everything Must Go ready to open on Wednesday. Then we're running, and it's just about maintenance and (hopefully) enjoying ourselves.

Learned a lot from this. Mainly about what I can't do anymore. The shows are fine, but I can't take doing this like I did back at NADA ten years ago. Especially with actually creating two of the shows I'm doing at the same time. A more coordinated plan of attack will be developed for next year. Two shows in August, probably - one extant script, one original - and also probably no Summer Festival show at The Brick. B & I will just deal with running the space for the Festival, and getting our August shows together. Maybe other director gigs here and there for others if asked, but . . . hmmn. Just two GCW productions in a year? Seems sparse.

No. Maybe it's just reasonable.

So when this is over, it's time for us to manage the tech for the 3rd Annual International Clown Theater Festival for a month, then we have to hang for a couple of weeks to deal with the October Penny Dreadful tech, then we get to go up to Maine for a few weeks and pull ourselves together, surf the zeitgeist, and consider what we should be doing for next year. Nice time to be in New England.

So, here we are. I'm about to wake B up to go off to The Brick to strike the Harry set and work EMG, but first, behind the cut, recent videos I've enjoyed . . .

And off we go. Enjoy.