ghost light: Big List of Theater: Where Have You Been Lately? Edition

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Big List of Theater: Where Have You Been Lately? Edition

Yeah. Where have you been Elizabeth? Like where has the love gone? Here's the thing, folks. There's this notion of priorities. At the beginning of the year, my priority was to show my support to the theater companies or production companies or individuals who are making the kind of theater I want to see more of and/or who are coming up with innovative ways of creating theater and/or bringing the arts to their community. So my theater-going dollars went directly to supporting them, in the form of smallish donations. That meant that I didn't see any theater for awhile. Which, honestly, is a trade-off that wasn't too hard to live with sometimes.

Then there's this matter of time. I have three kids: a two-year old who is particularly cling-onish to his mommie. And well, if you saw his little face and heard the plaintive way he says "Mommie," you'd wet your pants (or you'd given birth to three kids). Love would literally ooze out of your many orifices. Hmmm. Alarming visuals.

Moving on.

Finally, I've been deeply entrenched in my job at my daughter's co-op nursery school. That job being one of the chairpersons for the school's annual fundraising auction. The auction was last Saturday and now, except for a few minor tasks, I am back to procrastinating on my thesis. As for the auction, I could tell you war stories, but I'll just share a couple of the highlights. Yesterday for example: I had to file a police report because someone stole over $400 dollars worth of donations from the event site. It's a big bad world out there: someone acutally stole from a preschool auction. Finally, on a more uplifting note - we raised over $20,000. This in spite of theft and a bad economy. Families at the school and local businesses were very generous.

Oh. And there was this matter of reading Infini te Jest. As if you couldn't tell, I've been a tad preoccupied with that for the past three months.

So now the Big List. I don't know how many of these I'm going to get to, but will try hard to see most. I have my Phoenix tix already. So definitely going to that one.