Day Off

Howdy,

I don't know why I'm posting on the day off. But a good week on a beautiful play. I may have written on this before but there is a temptation because we are treating the presentation as "a viewing into the rehearsal process" to take the pressure off because, hey - you'll see that we get where we get to. But the pressure of a date to show work is important. We need a safe place to grow and explore and work on the play, but we also need the pressure of presentation to keep us focused and doing our best work. Hopefully, you'll all come, enjoy the play - but the most helpful is the get an honest response - and as much as we can do to make what you are responding to as full as possible - well that's our job.
That is what I'm focusing on - on the first day off. As well as taking of day of Brooklyn site seeing with Lea, and Jenn O'Byrne. Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge - got some good ice cream - looked at London (twice), rode the water taxi for the first time, watched kids bunji jump at the S. Street Seaport (available to anyone between 20 - 200lbs, I'm taking my nephews when they visit at the end of the month) ate sushi - and the Yankees won. All in all a perfect day.
Two things everyone needs to know: Sweet Storm performs at 8pm on Friday the 20th, and at 3pm and 8pm on Saturday the 21st. Lexi Croucher is having a going away party on the 21st. Lexi is going Upstate to Ithaca for school this summer - so the it may be hot here, but the city will definitly be a little less bright, so everyone who can go to her party - should. However, that means you have to plan on seeing Sweet Storm at one of the two other performances.
Penalties & Interests starts performances on Tuesday - and its only $10. It's new, funny, damn good, brilliant cast and creative team, and air conditioning - so that makes it the best deal in the city. Speaking of the value of new plays, a big shout out to Oskar, who is pictured in The Sunday Times Arts & Leisure Section today, promoting the opening of Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park, wearing a "Theater Starts Here" Playwrights Center of Minneapolis T-shirt, supporting new plays - even when he is directing one of the best plays of the last millenium. So after you see Penalties & Interests - and before you check out Sweet Storm - give Hamlet another look. Can't hurt.

Goodnight,

Padraic