It's the Intermission
A Creative Coffee Break

The last two weeks have been spent as follows:

• Writing two proposals for two different plays (one finished, one not) and mailing them.
• Sending out a three queries to theatres.
• Sending out a script to a lit manager who asked for it.
• Polishing up a two year old screenplay, and sending it out.
• Sending a query to an agent.
• Finally reading MBH’s outstanding outline for a proposed screenplay we will co-write.
• Avoiding the other project MBH and I are writing together.
• Reading through the play I began writing in San Francisco.
• Making notes for said play, which has taken a geographic turn, creating an exciting change to the story.

Oh yeah, and unpacking, job hunting, and getting bitten by mosquitoes.

I’ve been to theatre twice. Once for a reading of a new play. The play was pretty good. The acting was so bad I don’t want to tell you who put the reading on! The second outing was to the JCC’s Center Stage, for a musical revue. The revue, well, not so good. The talent, however, was a-okay, and we may venture back for Parade, by Jason Robert Brown, and Baby.

Tonight we’ll see Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, put on by Pandora Productions, the local GLBT theatre. We saw this play’s original production on Broadway, and again in San Francisco for the tour. I don’t expect this local production to match the glory of either of those. I’m looking forward to seeing how they do, uh, stack up to things.

Next week will be Jonathan Tolin’s Twilight of the Golds, produced by Wayward Actors.

Next month, will be Bunbury Theatre, opening in their new space with a revival of Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy.

Actors Theatre (yay!) returns in August with Randal Myler and Dan Wheetman’s Fire in the Mountain, a musical about the lives of Kentucky coal miners.

Good, bad or indifferent, I want to see as much local theatre as I can. How else can I get the lay of the land?

No one I’ve met seems to know any playwrights in Louisville, although I’ve uncovered a small handful of names to contact. I miss my Safe Group. They’re busy trying to fill my empty chair.

Since my last post, birds spotted in the backyard:

• Downy woodpeckers
• Red-bellied woodpecker
• Rose-breasted grosbeaks
• Pine siskins
• a Barred Owl (across the street)

I love it here in Louisville.

In case anyone was wondering.