FIRST DAY OF SPRING BREAK!
Read this past week:
Raisin in the Sun and Tea and Sympathy for class. Felt transgressive assigning T&S--not a play on anybody's radar anymore. Students responded strongly to it. I love when they love old chestnuts like that. Makes you forget they're chestnuts.
Re-read hunks of Mansfield Park and am having the delightful experience of sitting in on an English class devoted to Austen.
For work: did quite a bit of reading about some directors my students are currently studying--Wilson, Bogart, Suzuki--and also about cross-racial casting. Lots of fun stuff.
Watched: Long Day's Journey Into Night for the kabillionth time. Dean Stockwell ran away with it this time, for my money.
Watched: a couple more episodes of Nero Wolfe Mystery, a couple episodes of Psych, an episode of Lost. Too much TV!
Listened to Please Pass the Guilt, kind of a lesser, weird, late Wolfe--somewhat interesting, though, for throwing Fred, Orrie, and Sal into the mix in a more concerted way. I have been slightly spoiled about the final (Stout) Wolfe book, and I believe this one is moving them into position for that.
Theatre: a student's musical theatre piece consisting of an original book and borrowed songs. Not brilliant but good-spirited and with a couple of appealing performances. Also watched a handful of auditions for a student's senior project, which is a solid and sometimes beautiful play about the pirate Grace O'Malley.
I have a cool job.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13
Read: Dead Man's Cell Phone
Reading: Omnivore's Dilemma (still) (still good)
Work reading/re-reading: Short Organum for the Theatre, Good Person of Setzuan
Listening: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Please Pass the Guilt, NPR all-Sedaris podcast
Saw: Rubber n Glue in my department, show both written and directed by my friend Matt, because he rocks most awesomely
Watched: two episodes of the A&E Nero Wolfe Mystery series (started this in November, dunno why I haven't been including it--I watch about one a week. If you ever want anything pretty to look at, this is the show for you.
Reading: Omnivore's Dilemma (still) (still good)
Work reading/re-reading: Short Organum for the Theatre, Good Person of Setzuan
Listening: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Please Pass the Guilt, NPR all-Sedaris podcast
Saw: Rubber n Glue in my department, show both written and directed by my friend Matt, because he rocks most awesomely
Watched: two episodes of the A&E Nero Wolfe Mystery series (started this in November, dunno why I haven't been including it--I watch about one a week. If you ever want anything pretty to look at, this is the show for you.
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Saturday, March 6
Seen: Nation from NT Live
Switch evening of one-acts at Lincoln High
Percy Jackson/The Lightening Thief
Taming of the Shrew/The Women's Prize @ Bag & Baggage
Ten hours of Art History presentations, don't ask
Bits of rehearsals for two shows at school
Read for work: Uncle Tom's Cabin (the play) and Under the Gaslight. A lot of Gertrude Stein--delectable--and Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
Read: My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World
Listened: The Gambit and The Mother Hunt, both Wolfe
Switch evening of one-acts at Lincoln High
Percy Jackson/The Lightening Thief
Taming of the Shrew/The Women's Prize @ Bag & Baggage
Ten hours of Art History presentations, don't ask
Bits of rehearsals for two shows at school
Read for work: Uncle Tom's Cabin (the play) and Under the Gaslight. A lot of Gertrude Stein--delectable--and Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
Read: My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World
Listened: The Gambit and The Mother Hunt, both Wolfe
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