A transitional period

I'm feeling kind of transitional right now, as if I'm between things ... at least from an artistic perspective. Don't know what I'll work on next and don't have any performances/readings on the horizon (unless you count One Man Talking next spring, which we can't assume will go my way) so thought it would be a good time to think about recent events a bit.

Not only that, but if you only post on a blog once a month, then what's that?

At any rate, a very nice spring in many ways. I've seen some interesting theater, most of it good. The Chicago trip was drenched in theater, and all of it interesting and provacative: Head of Passes at Steppenwolf may not have been a perfect play but the performances were, and the technical achievement that ends Act One was a marvel! Othello the Remix I've mentioned in FB postings and such so I won't go on, but it was fun and dazzeling . . . kind of what I expected from Chicago Shakespeare, which brought Rose Rage to NYC some years ago and blew my mind!

Also excellent were Kafka's Monkey and Fragments (short Beckett pieces) both at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the other connecting tissue to these pieces was Katherine Hunter, who was the title character in the Kafka piece and she did Rockabye in Fragments . . . she is truly worth seeing if you get the chance.

The less said about Jeffrey Sweet's Kunstler the better. It flaunted several of the landmines inherent in biographical pieces, this happened then this then this . . . if you have to choose between Jeffrey's play and the documentary that Kunstler's daughters did, go with the documentary . . . pretty much covered the same territory.

My own performances were successful in their way. Letter of Resignation totally rocked at One Man Talking. I felt like I nailed it and would love more performances of the piece to really dig deeper. The reading of Preston's Spot went well enough; the piece could use a tad of tweaking but overall it is pretty compelling I think (and Bette who also directed both pieces thinks so as well). I'm gonna miss having Woodstock Fringe as a next step for Preston's Spot, that was a nice two step process going from reading in the city to a bit more staged reading up there, and the opportunity to fine tune between the two helped both of the pieces I did that with.

What's next? Who knows. I'm also having ideas float to the surface so one of those will catch fire some day. I've submitted for some things and want to get a better handle on marketing myself . . . got a taste of doing that at the Goodman in Chicago but that ended up being a bust, but ... if you don't put it out there who will?

So. Onward.