Well, the IT Awards were last night. I didn’t win but I did get a nice consolation prize. One of the presenters was a former teacher of mine, so after the ceremony, at the after party, I got to sit at the big kids table. At the table were Lanford Wilson, Marylouise Burke, ML Geiger among others. It was quite a fun time. The bar was radically underprepared for such a large crowd on a Monday night and they quickly ran out of Martini glasses and certain brands of vodka. How apropos of a function for off-off-broadway, cutting corners on the props budget! Still it can’t beat the broken air conditioner at the nomination ceremony.
I have a meeting at INTAR this morning for Windows. It is the first read through with the cast. I love these. I love them because I hate reading plays, but love listening to them. But more, there is a kind of raw truth to a play, the script and the cast, that one finds in a first reading. I have worked on many new plays and this is always the case. No one quite knows what will happen, it is new for everyone. And it is awesome. I think the play is quite beautiful, and am really looking forward to hearing it come alive.
Regarding new plays I have two new translations that I am lighting in the next few months. Twenty Years of Agnes is a spanish play by Juan Riquelme, directed by Camilo Fontecilla and produced by my friend Shoni Currier who I have worked with a number of times. In November I am lighting a new translation of Anouilh’s Antigone produced by QED Productions. Madness of Day is neither a new play nor a new translation, but it is new in the sense that it has never before been adapted to the stage.
Jay Aubrey, producer of Cupid and Psyche, has asked me to light another play for the Themantics Group, although the details are not yet nailed down, so I do not know how it fits in with my schedule as it currently stands.
Today is a good day.
