October is the Best Month!
Dunkirk NY – It’s October. That means you won’t see too much blogging over the next few weeks. Why? Here’s why:
- It’s postseason time in baseball. My hometown nine, the New York Yankees, are in the playoffs for the 14th straight time, and I’ll be watching. It’s quite unfortunate that given what the next bullet point is going to be, I won’t be able to get tickets to The Jake, which is only two hours away from me. Even if the Yanks lose, I will still be watching every other playoff game, up until the last game of the World Series. That’s what you do when you’re a baseball freak like me.
- Directing Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s the first show of our Fredonia theatre season, and I’m its director. We are just getting into the meat of rehearsals, stringing together the show, with about 10 days before first tech. It’ll keep me busy, running rehearsals and then running home to catch the playoffs. I am grateful for two things: my digital video recorder to record the games while I’m in rehearsal, and the fact that RHPS is only about 90 minutes long and is not exactly a demanding show beyond getting the style right.
- Leaf Peeping. When I’m not doing 1 or 2 above, I’ll probably be outside enjoying the changing of the leaves. There are not too many days left in this neck of the woods before winter shows its frozen face, so with what good days are left until the end of the month I get outside as much as possible. It’s a good thing I have an XM Satellite Radio and enjoy listening to baseball as much as watching it.
- A lack of ideas and thoughts on theatre at the moment. The series on theatre education reform seemed to have exhausted me in terms of commenting on theatre for the time being. I don’t often stray from blogging about theatre; there are enough very good political blogs out there, and expressing my political outrage seems better spent in other venues. I do hope to take a trip to New York City in the same way I did last November, but for now not much to say theatrically, really.
So hopefully there won’t be too much gnashing of teeth on the lack of relevant posts. If something comes up I’ll be around, but perhaps not so eloquently. November, which will bring the darkness and the sense of hunkering down, is more conducive to writing. But not that nothing’s getting done. Ideas are being generated, discussions are being had behind the scenes about a movement to activate reform in theatre education. If you’d like more information, feel free to email me and I can fill you in. -twl
