tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55633592012-02-02T10:55:09.415-05:00A Blog Without The Babypengohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06159516848217178336noreply@blogger.comBlogger5421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5563359.post-91703692868954076302011-04-24T10:12:00.007-04:002011-04-24T11:35:29.296-04:00

My expectations for this production were very high. And in some manner, they were met. Shaping this piece to match the marathon play was a delicate balance, Ali built on the previous direction, leading me to be less ponderous, and more immediate. To wit; go faster.This was disorienting at first, I was used to presenting it a very specific way. It led to discovery, and wonderful surprises. Also,

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Reverend James R. McGonegal used each of my plays as the basis for his Palm Sunday homily at St. Ignatius of Antioch. I called him on Monday to ask ... what the dillio?He explained that, much like I HATE THIS, the events of Palm Sunday begin in expectation and exultation, and end tragically with the Passion. Well. He saw right through me. I have explained before how the structure my play was a

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So I went to see the Kids in the Hall last night. That’s my little joke. I have been sharing the make-up room with the cast of Fever/Dream which is playing the Gordon Square. I work with these people, or have done, or I just met them. Most are well-younger than I am, except for the two really old guys.An adaptation of Calderon’s Life Is A Dream, it’s a contemporary office comedy where the heir

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That person from my youth takes credit for my achievements thorugh the arrogant statement, “I told you you could.”Well. Four years ago Jeremy Paul asked me to lunch to ask how to start a theater company. Everything I recommended he do, he has done. And now he is the hottest shit in Cleveland.Get your own space, create your own material, be a happening. That’s it in a nutshell. No, I am not

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I have to look at this picture a lot.There’s lots of plays going on, Excuse me for whining about lackluster ticket sales. I always do that. It comes with performing plays about stillbirth. I had a co-worker tell me to my face, “I can’t see your show.” I said I understand, we’re all busy. She emphasized, “No … I can’t see it.”A number of the shows which opened with mine are closing at the same

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This morning a man in a coffee shop said something very positive to me. He seemed like a positive guy. I got in my car with my cup of coffee, placed in the cup holder, sat back and a large muscle in my back flared up.I wasn’t doing anything. I wasn’t reaching or flexing, I just had a thought and my back seized up. I must be under a lot of stress. Maybe weeping uncontrollably in the car last

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7:11 PMA few years ago Cleveland joined the ranks of those theater communities that provide Monday night performances for the benefit of those actors who are busy every other night of the week. Monday is Actors' Equity day off. It's also a good way of adding a "cheap night" to the run. Tickets tonight are only $10.Pre-sale for this evening's performance exceeded the attendance of any single

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Good Lord, this is an old picture.Ah HA! I was a little confused when I saw that a review had appeared on cleveland.com. Tony hadn't come to see my show, how could he review it?He hadn't. Christine Howey was in the audience on Thursday night to write for them, and not for SCENE or for her own blog.I am trying to figure out the whole "preview" thing here in Cleveland. All kinds of houses have

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7:05 PMThere are openings all over town. Two here, one at Theater Ninjas, Great Lakes opens Two Gents on Saturday. Tonight is a "preview" for all of us ... but for some, really. It's an opening. There will be critics here. What does "preview" even mean anymore? Is it just that "opening" means that's when the party is?I hope someone comes to see my play.I HATE THIS has had a lot of openings.

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My Little Kelly6:50 PMOnce the house opens I will need to use the bathroom beneath Fefu's Kitchen (don't make me explain what that means, exactly.) So tonight I stick my head in Fefu's to check out whether or not they had, in fact, put the door on that bathroom. Kelly said I would be sharing it with the cast of FEVER/DREAM, and that is a normal sized cast.I open the door, and there are ladies

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Backstage6:50 PMThe year 2000 Radiohead album Kid A included many themes I shared with Dennis to compose to original music for I HATE THIS. And we used it for pre-show at Big Box, in Minnesota, in New York. Since then there has been no call for "pre-show," not in conference halls and hospitals and church basements.It is playing now. We are five minutes from our first run-through. Takes a

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11:11 AMCue-to-cue begins.Good God. Ali provied a table of food and drink ... bagels, cream cheese, strawberries, Cheetos, orange juice, Coke, doughnuts -- f*cking doughnuts?That's a line from the show, by the way.12:22 PMWe just finished doing to cue-to-cue for I HATE THIS. THESE PEOPLE ARE AWESOME. I BOW DOWN TO THEIR ULTIMATE INCREDIBLENESS.I have not performed this show with anything

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AND THEN YOU DIE run-through: 1 hour, seven minutes. Hells, YEAH!Whew.You can peruse my running blog to get a grasp of my silly preoccupation with my weight. You can also check out HOW LITTLE I HAVE BEEN RUNNING THIS YEAR. Damn.But you know what? This was the first time running through ATYD has been fun. Just pure fun. Ali mentioned this, I was discovering new things all over the place

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Tonight is night off from rehearsal. And this is how I will be spending it.NOTE:DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUSH THIS MOVE, IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF DOWNROCK AND YOU SHOULD PERFECT IT BEFORE SPEEDING IT UP.

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6:39 PMYay! Tonight is not about me!Josh (multimedia) and Joshhawk (light) are present, we are working tech tonight. They are currently trying to get the video projector set, I am getting a few glimpses of Josh's animations ... and OOOH! I am getting excited. Looking good.7:56 PMRolling through the slides of I HATE THIS. The music of Dennis Yurich. 9:03 PMFinished setting cues for I HATE THIS.

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7:50 PMWe are not tech'ing this evening. Poor Josh. So excited about being to ask to design multimedia for three shows ... only they all are happening at once. My show requires some deceptively not-simple tricks (a speedometer? that's easy ... right ..?)So ... yesterday I had asked for a speed through for Wednesday ... so Kelly announced today we'd be having one tonight.Okay. Not prepared for

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Herstory. Get it?Spent the evening at Arts Collinwood for the Sunday Roast, featuring writers Lee Chilcote, Catherine Donnelly and Toni K. Thayer. I like Lee and Catherine's work, but I was really there to see my wife. You know how it is.When I first presented the staged reading in August 2002, someone, I think it was Faye, said it is a long-standing belief that it takes ten years to be able to

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Sunday Run-Through 2:25 PMI HATE THIS 1 hour 6 minutes. This will change, we are used to holding for music, this will change. I am delighted to be more animated in this production. We are sharing. We are getting close to the audiences. We need to stop writing in first person plural.Broke out the sweater for today's run. Ten year-old Land's End sweater. Pale green, iconic. I feel comfortable

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I would bemoan the fact that my current schedule still makes it very challenging to get a run in ... except we worked AND THEN YOU DIE tonight, from 6:30 to almost ten. Bouncing up and down on my toes for three and a half hours, leaping onto and off of cubes and platforms, running circles around you sooner than you know. ... and dancing. Don't forget the dancing.Exhausted and hungry, my throat

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Chalk hills and children anchor my feet.Chalk hills and children. Oddly complete.

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What comes through? Repetition, comfort, knowledge ... this play is not, actually in my bones. The words can surprise me. "It has been so long since he died." How do you say that when what you mean is that it has been two months when you also know it has been ten years. Which do you play? You must play two months, only that is a lie, and I hate lying.The joy emerges, the joy of telling. It has

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Jesus. Will you look at this?Working AND THEN YOU DIE in the Storefront tonight. First night in the Storefront, first night with actual space to move, to run ... and something hurts in my left knee. Kelly, the stage managerest with the mostest had ICY HOT and an ace bandage, and so it feels better, but come on. Major suckage.UPDATE: My knee is fine, actually. But ever since ... well, ever since

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Oh my God what was I thinking.We had a "run-through" tonight for the benefit of our video sound guy, Josh, and the lighting designer, Josh. They are two different guys named Josh. The LD has a mohawk so Ali calls him Joshhawk, but that is confusing to Josh because it makes him think there's an actual bird in the room.Act One (I HATE THIS) went not so piss-poorly. There was a performance of

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I am supposed to be off-book my next Tuesday. This was an arbitrary date arrived at Monday night when it was decided that rehearsal would proceed even though my director needs to be absent. Kelly and I will read lines, I must be off-book. This worried me ... until the past two nights when I discovered exactly how valuable to human mind is and how much can be retained through sheer repetition.

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CPT Poster!No, I have not read these plays out loud, back to back, at one time. Ever. Until tonight. The rehearsals begin, Ali, Kelly and I huddled in Fefu's Kitchen, listening to me read the complete script of I HATE THIS/AND THEN YOU DIE.First act (IHT): 50 minutesSecond Act (ATYD): 53 minutesHey, what? Really? Well, that's good news already. I mean, that's not run time, no way, we'll tack

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Seated in the Storefront Studio Theatre at CPT. IHT/ATYD opens here in what, four weeks? I am here to see Brett Keyser in the solo performance Darwinii. The family is out of town for roughly 36 hours so they can visit Toni's ailing grandmother. I take this freedom of responsibility to check out theater and later, to fold laundry.Went to the bathroom. It is a little jarring. This bathroom.

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Investigating my 2001 journals has not been an emotional journey. And I have felt bad about that. I mean, they are interesting, to me anyway. They make me feel kind of sad, wistful, what have you. I know these things, and there have been a few surprises but largely I see a callow youth, walking blindly into a dark forest.At least, that was how I had been until I began peeking ahead. The last

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Have You Seen Me?Male - Answers to the name "TIGER"Last seen on Castleton Road Thursday night 2/17/11Look at that photo. In the upper left corner you can see my girl's smile. She loves this cat. She sleeps with this cat, or did so, until Thursday when it got out the side door and has not come back. It was in the upper 50s that night. Today there is a blanket of snow on the ground. He has been

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Last Sunday I botched my first production meeting. Scheduled for 11 AM at CPT, I wrote it down as 1 PM. Alas. Beth and Ali were able to work out the most important elements in my absence, but still. Oops. This is not how I want to start.My stage manager, my graphic designer, my director, want some kind of clean copy of the script. Kelly was generous enough to give me a deadline of MARCH 9.

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Meta, meta, meta ...So, while exploring evidence of crises developing ten years ago, I am also reading over journal entries from the Dobama's Night Kitchen rehearsal process for The Gulf, a play about the Persian Gulf War, which occurred ten years before that.On midnight, January 16, 1991 I and a few dozen others participated in a performance art piece called Desert Scream, which took place next

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There exists a spotty paper trail of our pregnancy with Calvin. Nothing like the weight of evidence of our pregnancy with the girl almost two years later -- we watched that pregnancy with a vengeance, ourselves and our medical team.No, we have a few "growing belly" photos, and my sporadic journal entries -- nothing like the outpouring of writing that came after. But having never delved into

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As years go by I am somewhat interested in how certain things vanish from the Internet. Some things never do, like nude pictures. But articles can, especially when they were published in periodicals that 1) closely guarded their content from the beginning or 2) go out of business.Perhaps they have seriously revamped their website, and everything before 20xx has been deleted from the server.

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They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about StillbirthProduct DescriptionStillbirth, defined as the death of an infant between 20 weeks gestation and birth, is a tragedy repeated 30,000 times every year in the United States. That means more than 80 mothers a day feel their babies slip silently from their bodies, the only sound in the delivery room their own sobs. Eighty stillborn babies a day

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Toni wrote a lovely piece about our Day of the Dead altar. You should read it.

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Always love to see how people will react when the subject pops up. We were watching Sherlock on PBS last night, a modern interpretation of the Sherlock Holmes myth set in 21st century London. It's brilliant.I'll cut to the chase ...SPOILER ALERTOne of the victims tried to scrawl the word "Rachel" into the wooden floor with her fingernails as she was dying. The police do a little research and

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Saw Don't Call Me Fat at CPT last weekend, I am looking forward to Kill Will next weekend (it opens this Saturday.) Next Spring I will be presenting IHT and ATYD in the storefront space. There is a lot of work to do.Josh needs to redesign the video for this show, and brush up the running play video. We have talked over a few things but really, he and Kelly have had their hands full with their

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In April 2011, I HATE THIS will be produced at Cleveland Public Theatre. These will be the first public performances in Cleveland since 2004, and the first time I have performed the show at all since 2007.The events described in the play occurred ten years ago, and at the time I kept a journal. I will be providing edited version of these journal entries on this blog through next Spring. You can

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I Hate This and And Then You Die in repertory by David HansenDirected by Alison GarriganStorefront StudioApril 7 - 23David Hansen performs his two award winning solo shows in rep. One is an exploration of personal loss and recovery, while the other is about obsession and victory. Both shows were developed in CPT's Big [Box] and have gone on to successful runs at the New York Fringe.CPT's Entire

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... and you missed it. My last live performance of I HATE THIS was Friday, June 22, 2007 in Plymouth, England. A large hall, an intimate crowd, an anti-climactic end to this important work.I have been in negotiations with certain people about presenting it one more time in Cleveland Heights. This would have been nice if only because there has not been a public performance of the show in four

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For a little over five years, I have been collecting things that have to do with this show I wrote called I Hate This. I just dropped them into a box in my office, "to be filed later."It's "later".There are, or were, two boxes, overflowing with script drafts, programs, posters, postcards, letters, articles, newsletters, photographs, and more. The first box was filled after the New York Fringe

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We received an unsigned package today, addressed to "Calvin Thayer Hansen." Inside? 12 sticks of colored chalk.Thank you, whoever you are.Seven? * Sigh *

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Thanks for adding so much beauty to our part of the world.

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From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman ...Les Knight is the founder of VHMET - the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - is thoughtful, soft-spoken, and quite serious."Suppose ... that one virus that would truly be effective strikes, and all human sperm loses viability. The first to notice would be crisis-pregnancy centers, because no one would be coming in. Happily, in a few months abortion

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Love a good pun.Toni shared this review of Kahlil Gibran’s Collected Works with me this morning.We share a mutual scorn for The Prohpet, each for our own reasons. If you are a true lover of this book, please move onto your next blog and do not let me offend you (and do not read the aforelinked review.) Especially if I have been to your wedding.God, it's hard to write about Gibran without

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From Ten Bad Dates with De Niro:Henrik Hansen's 'Ten Otherwise Wonderful Movies Let Down by a Naff Ending.'Recently Funky Winkerbean made what the Comics Curmudgeon calls "The Great Leap Forward." When we were all teens and pre-teens in the late 70s and early 80s, it wasn't lost on me what Funky looked like my brother Henrik.Now that all the original characters are suddenly in their mid-40s ...

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Cleveland Jewish News, September 27, 2007Ernest Hemingway once boasted he could write a novel that was only six words long. Asked to prove it, he took a napkin and wrote, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”The anecdote may be apocryphal, but the sentiment speaks volumes about pregnancy loss, an emotionally devastating phenomenon that afflicts hundreds of thousands of American women yearly.These

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While at college (ironically enough, I am spending the weekend in Athens) I took a seminar my junior year on Arthur Miller. It's where I learned to dislike him. A few gems notwithstanding, by being forced to read most of his plays, I discovered (at the age of 20) a man of marginal talent with a penchant for unrealistic dialogue who said the same thing over and over again.Then there's that

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So this radio version of Eric Coble's adaptation of E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops has been gestating for almost two years. Eric had written the script as a stage play several years ago - and I said damn! I wanted to do that! But I hadn't not in the almost twenty years since I first read it, so it's just as well that he did. And that he did it better than I could have, which goes without

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SEEKING STUDIO AUDIENCE FOR ERIC COBLE RADIO DRAMAWCPN 90.3 FM ideastream is producing Eric Coble's adaptation of E.M. Forster's science fiction classic THE MACHINE STOPS.The performance will be recorded live in front of a studio audience on Friday, August 24 at 6 PM at the Idea Center inside the Westfield Insurance Studio Theater, for later broadcast on 90.3's "Around Noon".Admission is free,

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Following a few fringe-heavy years I have been sitting on the sidelines, "lurking" the sites for the MN and NY fringes, and paying a little attention to the feedback and fallout. I'd like to get back to one of those eventually, but you need to have a show first. Actually, that's not true, a great deal of shows accepted by the MN Fringe during the lottery in February share the title TBA.Because

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Finished reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union a few mornings ago. Love to say I polihed the entire thing off on my Chicag trip, but I didn't. That's two novels in less than a month. Way too much fiction for me, Krakauer needs to write another epic about stupid people doing stupid things in nature.I don't know what to say about Chabon's novel without giving too much away, so stop reading if

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The first time I saw The Pajama Men (formerly their act was called "Sabotage") was at the MN Fringe in 2003. Hey. Four years is a lot of time. Anyway, they were just hysterical. Caught them last night at the Second City Storefront space in the Loop. Thought that was very, very funny, too.Shame there were only 10 people in the audience. Hate it when that happens. Not conducive to comedy.

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Last December, Toni asked if she could take a weekend on her own, to visit friends in New York, and I said, of course.Then in January she said, oh! Some folks are getting together in Indiana, could I go to that, too? And I said, uh ... yeah.By the middle of this summer I realized if I didn't cash in soon, the new school year would be upon us and I'd never get a chance to get away. So I asked

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Anyone following this?Couple years back the NY Times Sunday Magazine began running serialized comix. Since April it's been Watergate Sue by Megan Kelso. It's the story of a woman in 2006 having her first baby, trying to get the true story of her own birth (during the Watergate summer of 1974) out of her mom, who doesn't want to talk about it.In last week's episode (in 1974) Sue's Dad asks how

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From my sister-in-law ...It's Wednesday evening around 9:30 MN time.  You may have heard of the collapsed bridge in Minneapolis.  Denny and I were home safe in St. Paul.  My parents and R. and H. were in Circle Pines.  A. and M. were in Minneapolis.  They had driven over the bridge an hour before, but are now home safe and sound.Denny was called into work.  As we speak he is out on a remote at

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Finished it. Loved the ending, where Ron and Hermione are riding off on one broomstick, and Harry was spelled out the word GOOD-BYE in bedpans.No, I won't say anything about how it ends. Just about how the whole Harry Potter thing relates to ME, because that's what this entire blog is about.I was aware of the books prior to 2000, but they were just popular kids books, like, what was that,

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Our absent instructor returned briefly today. She wants to see if the kids can't pull together the act they were working on before she left two weeks ago. Frankly, I don't know if I would have been able to come back under similiar circumstances. I really admire her dedication to the program.We had sent her a card last week. Most wishes were of the could-be-any-tragedy variety. "We're

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The Vampyres takes place in a coffee shop, and in spite of my being easily distracted, I found it much easier to write the thing when I was in one. A coffee shop, I mean. I visited Toni in NYC for a week in a bone-chilling week in February, 1995 and sat in Cafe Lalo several afternoons while she was working, with my new, black and white Apple laptop. I think it was the last black and white

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One year ago today, Orson shattered his skull.Worse things can happen. But not many.Today he is tall, and obstreperous. Like another BOY WHO LIVED he has a neat scar on his head, but it's on the back so it doesn't make good cover art. Daniel Radcliffe will be playing him in the movie, however.

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Forgive me, I do not know how to write about another person's loss. I do not feel I have the right to. When someone close tells me someone related to them has lost a child, or endured a miscarriage, I do not feel I have the right to "report" about it here. And there have been losses in the very recent past which I have written on privately, tried to help as I can, but did not feel was

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Photo: The mysterious and difficult-to-understand theatrical ritual known only as "Zip-Zap-Zop."This summer I'm working with the legendary Tim Keo as part of the free, summer arts camp for Cleveland Municipal School kids, Smart in the City - excuse me, that's smART in the City. You can read the inital press release here. There are eight sites in Cleveland, ours is at Nottingham Methodist Church

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Heaven on Wheels, and in Leg WarmersBy Charles IsherwoodNew York Times: July 11, 2007Can a musical be simultaneously indefensible and irresistible? Why, yes it can. Witness “Xanadu,” the outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980 about a painter and his muse who find love at a roller disco in Los Angeles ...(more)...also ... ‘Susan’ Sought As a London MusicalArts,

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JacMac and RadBoy ... GO!Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 1985, my brother Denny had graduated from college but didn't have a job yet. I was about to start my senior year in high school. We'd never spent any time in each other's company before, not really, not by choice. When I was five, he was twelve. When I was twelve, he was nineteen."Road to Nowhere" - Talking HeadsWhile he was

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Car Explodes at Airport in ScotlandGLASGOW (Reuters) - A four-wheel-drive vehicle rammed into Glasgow airport's main terminal on Saturday and exploded in flames in what police described as an attack, a day after a twin car-bomb plot was foiled in London ... (more)I know the T-shrt slogan "we're creating enemies faster than we can kill them" is so 2004, but it's even worse than that. We're

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Toni is out of town until Monday, and I can't procreate.Line forms on the left.

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Photo: Cyberman on Leicester Square.I don't like summing up. Summing up is for the book, the article or the play. A blog is life in motion, and trying to draw any grand conclusions at the end of a long journey is as pointless as trying to draw one at the end of any given day.Often I do exactly this when composing a blog entry, and I generally find myself simply dropping the last paragraph

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Photo: Orson joins Nick for a bite.The schizophrenic weather of Plymouth kept us on our toes all day. The folks took a lovely boat ride in the harbor, while it intermittently pissed rain and shone bright, warm sun. Meanwhile, Kelly and I met Nick at the hall for tech.It's a big room, the Salvation Army meeting hall, and Nick had high expectations. There were twenty seats purchased in advance,

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* The folks at Pegasus House recommended a restaurant up the street, Rubie's at the Red House, which was more than adequate for us.* We departed Whipton without ever visiting Exeter.* Nick met us at the train station in Plymouth. Toni, Kelly and I all noticed almost immediately, and indepedently of each other, that Nick is just like Nick. This identification only became stronger as the morning

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Photo: The road to Torr Head.Nap time at the Pegasus Guest House in Whipton, outside Exeter, and plenty of time on our hands. I had been apprehensive about this day, the only one that involved travel and a performance on the same day in the entire journey. What if something went wrong? What if we were missing something, something were wrong with the tech, I left something behind - there would

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Photo: The view outside our window today.I make it a habit during long journeys never to log what will happen, but only what has happened. In that way I don't repeat myself ... or have to explain how something I said was going to happen, didn't.Yesterday was not filled with the luck of the ... there were unfortunate incidents. While everything eventually worked out, there were difficultites

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Sorry for missing an entry yesterday, it was a big, big travel day with no internet at the end of it. We left Birmingham via air to Belfast. I am pleased and amazed at how well the seven of us have been coping, shipping from city to city like this.SANDS Chariman Steven and his wife Jackie met us at the airport and helped us get situated with the Big Red Van we've rented. Yes, a rental. Yes, I

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I had an honest-to-God actor's nightmare last night! Great Lakes was producing The Importance of Being Earnest. I was playing Algernon. (Scoff if you like - I said this was a nightmare.)I have never been in a production of Earnest in my life. I found myself backstage, fifteen minutes before curtain, almost entirely in costume, and I didn't know a word. I picked up a script in the valiant

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{SPOILER ALERT.}While we were riding the London Eye, Adrienne and I had an uncomfortable conversation about the movie Children of Men. I think that, among other things, it is about how humans go insane when they can't have children. Adrienne says it's a dumb chase movie with a pregnant woman in it, and the guy dies at the end.{END OF SPOILER.}I was flabbergasted. I know Children of Men is not

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Already received feedback from the SANDS Conference on Tuesday!Out of 98 forms: Please evaluate, scoring from 4 - 1 ( 4 - e x c e l l e n t ; 3 - g o o d ; 2 - f a i r ; 1 - p o o r ) “I hate this” A play without the baby a solo performance – David Hansen4 - 88.88% 3 - 9.10% 2 - 2.02% 1 - 0% Comments: Fantastic / Amazing / Awesome/ Inspirational

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Photo: Royal College of Physicians performance. Big big screen.Yesterday started well enough, with a well-anticipated 5 mile run. Things quickly soured as the getting-out-the-door ritual was unfortunately stressful. I was exhausted (hmn, going to be at 1 am and waking the next morning at 6 for a five mile run witll do that) and highly anxious about the performance at the Royal College of

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The children were left in the care of MP and Auntie Adrienne last night so that Kelly, Toni and I could steal off and see The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside. For my wealth of knowledge of the place, I have only seen one show there, and it was hardly a model example - though I have to say, the "Fancy Dress Party Macbeth" remains the best production of the Scottish Play I've

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Photo: That's a man, baby.Good God. The children's television is worse here than at home.It was a long day yesterday, taking the train from Carlisle to London. We were taking a first class coach, and lucky me, I got the odd single seat a few rows up from everyone else. I read and dozed on and off for four hours. They do have an awful lot of sheep here.The sheer excitement of being on a train

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Last night Z. & O. treated us to their own rendition of To My Brother Russell, Whom I Slept With. Blame jet-lag if you like, it was irritating.The performance at St. Cuthbert's couldn't have gone smoother. Technical considerations can be such a headache, we do not have a large operation and to make this work, every venue agreed to provide everything except me and Kelly and a disk full of cues.

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Sitting in our hotel room by the window, overlooking Greenmarket Square, praying two children take their naps sometime soon. There is a community band playing in the gazebo.These kids are craking each other up, each in their own beds. There is also a carousel knocked up in the square, which several family members have indulgently taken them on four times each - and at £2 a pop, too. No wonder

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Photo: Happy 23rd birthday, Adrienne!On the train from Glasgow to Carlisle. The girls are all making "awwww" noises at the nursing sheep on the hillside.Okay, something is seriously up with the airlines. Three of the last four flights I have taken have been seriously delayed. On the tramac in Newark we waited a good hour and a half to take off. Nothing like the six hours we waited to board

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In a day and a half we begin the UK tour. I have not had time to blog recently, I am aware that most of these posts are just reefers to obnoxious YouTube videos or newspaper articles. I got no time for anything else, I have been juggling three projects at work with a number of other personal and artistic endeavors which may or may not be interesting. May if any of them come to any kind of

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9 Jun: Carlisle, England St. Cuthbert's Church @ 7 pm12 Jun: London, England Royal College of Physicians @ 2 pm14 Jun: Lincoln, England Terry O'Toole Theatre @ 8 pm16 Jun: Birmingham, England Queen Elizabeth Hospital Post Grad Suite @ 2 pm18 Jun: Lurgan, Northern Ireland Lurgan Town Hall @ 7 pm20 Jun: Exminster, England Exminster Friends Centre @ 7 pm22 Jun: Plymouth, England Plymouth Salvation

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Today's Fortune Cookie Fortune:"The cure for grief is motion."A palliative perhaps, but not a cure.

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Two years ago Toni and I took the kids (Orson was about ten days old) to the first Cleveland Heights Memorial Day parade they - or we - had ever been to. At that time I had let eleven of them pass by without attending one, which is a pity, as I live a five minute walk from Mayfield, where it goes.My memories of Memorial Day in my hometown involve crowded sidewalks, and lots of processional cars,

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Looking back over this blog you can locate the various points where I realize I had unwittingly (as opposed to intentionally) either emulated or stolen a gag or turn of phrase for use in I HATE THIS. Here's another one.The entire Mailing List phone thing is straight out of Nichols and May. Now Henrik will tell me he always knew that and assumed I did it on purpose. The truth is, the phone gag

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So I'm sitting in a waiting room as a nurse goes off to find out where I am supposed to be. My appointment was scheduled for that moment, but the office I had arrived at was dark with a sign clearly reading Open - 8:30 AM.I had called yesterday to double-check the site - it had changed twice in the last two weeks. I check "outgoing calls" on my cellphone, and hit speed-dial for the number I had

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That joke never gets tired.Here's the news: SANDS has been working with me to publish a script of IHT in the UK. Hopefully, it will be available at all the tour stops next month. It's not really meant to be used as a play script. Instead, I hope it may be of some comfort to those who are coping with new grief, or trying to come to terms with the world around them, when it insists on moving on

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So I got this domain name, see?It's not a terribly exciting website, just a big online resume - though it does include a lot of info about the show. And I haven't updated it since last summer. The reason for this is Toni got me a beautiful new Mac to replace the G3 tower I acquired back in 98. The oldest computer I'd ever had, so much of it was obsolete I was aching for a new model.However,

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"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry FalwellJerry Falwell. Dead, but not gay.

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I always, always, keep the clothes with me. I never check the sweater or the green Chuck's - the original jeans, alas, went the way of all things a long time ago. They are my costume, they are what I was wearing the day my son was born.Today, of course, I checked them - there was so much stuff to carry home, among four individuals, I just didn't think. And for the first time in my life, I have

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Lovely performance last night for the Consoling Parents Support Group in Louisville, KY. Our hosts have been really wonderful, among other things they brought in dinner from this great local seafood grill place before the performance, and there was childcare for the kids who were there. Z&O had the chance to play with other children for the first time in a few days.Due to a last minute conflict

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Sometimes my performance is part of a larger conference. Here in Louisville, it's actually a separate event which was orchestrated by Amy M. to coincide with a conference. Today there is a day-long event, Postpartum Depression and Infant Development, at Baptist Hospital. The keynote speaker was Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and it was our desire to get to see him speak.In brief, we succeeded, in

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Welcome to Louisville. And thank you, Continental Airlines, for making me and my family sit around Concourse D for five hours, waiting for a delayed flight from LaGuardia. What a lovely evening.The big shock upon our descent into Kentucky was the discovery that although I have plenty of contact lenses, they are all for my right eye. It will be a very blurry show for me tomorrow.I mean, today.

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