Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Over the weekend, we saw Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy at The Bunbury Theatre. While the actors were delightfully skilled, and the set design was lovely, the pacing of the play did not live up to the farce it is required to be.

The Bunbury crew have setup a permanent new home in an old YMCA building. The stage, I’m told, used to be a basketball court. I’d never been in a brand, spanking new theatre. There was a lot of excitement in the audience over the theatre. It was beautiful, comfortable, and, well, smelled really nice. 150 seats. Bunbury folks did an outstanding job on the gym’s transformation.

The next play up is Juergen K. Tossman’s AUTOCARE. Mr. Tossmann is also Bunbury’s Artistic Director. (Maybe I should start a theatre?) I always look forward to seeing new work, so of course, I’m signing up for this one.

Bunbury has a cool alternative to subscriptions. You can purchase a "Season Passport" which allows you to see all six shows as a single person, or multiple tickets for some combination of shows. Uh…like if you and yer girlfriend wanna take two people to one show, that configuration uses up four tickets. And then you have two tickets left over for one more show if yer girlfriend goes with you. Or you can take yourself by yourself to two shows. Something like that. I like it.