6.22.01

happy first day of summer, folks. oh, that was yesterday. well, close enough. i’m in tech right now, which prevents me from keeping track of what day it is as i labor under the 97 degree desert sun. the challenges of outdoor theatre are many. some thoughts:

-the wildlife count: skunk, deer, robins, geese, ducks, mosquitoes, mice, beetles the size of mice, and june bugs.

-the bad: blinding sun, sunburn, props melting in the heat, the William Shakespeare Mosquito-Breeding Pond, wind, a nine-foot tall bust of Mozart on wheels, a bloody heavy curtain with very poor rigging which i get to haul up and down up and down, mosquitoes, 15-hour work days, it’s too dark to read my paperwork.

-the good: i get paid to do something new and interesting every day, from my “office” (stage left), i can look up and see the milky way, (how many jobs offer that perk?), i know all about making fake blood, and i expect to be really buff by the end of the summer for all my efforts dragging that curtain up and down again.

amadeus (by peter shaffer) is a fabulous play. had i more time and more properly functioning brain cells this morning, i’d give you a synopsis, but in the mean time you’ll have to get the reviews from someone else.