Good morning , all. Here I am in lovely Bristol, PA. I am ensconced in the Artist Residence - the theater owns an apartment building for artist housing, right on the river - there are geese honking right outside my window as I write. Oh, the view!!! My apt. has two bedrooms, kitchen, huge living room with a piano, YES A FORMAL DINING ROOM! and wonderful little alcove in a bay window to sit and read. Wonderful views out every window.
I went to their current show last night - Thornton Wilder's Skin Of Our Teeth. Huzzah!! It had all the problems the original production had -- folks just don't get it. Well, cuz it's about the whole history of the human race, what resilient little animals we are, the millions of years of knowledge in our very DNA. Well, I cried at the end of the third act. So moving. And director Keith Baker used slides of history since 1942 or so, when Tallulah Bankhead created Sabina - so there was lots of stuff Wilder could not have imagined - A-bomb, liberation of The Camps, Viet Nan, Trade Towers, y'all know the highlights... and still we go on, still that ember burns inside, some of us just never give up. And Earth abides. Very moving. The first time I saw that show, I think, Bruce Kimmel was Antrobus. I'd love to see him play it now...
So it's a dream come true - the Artist community, living "together" in separate housing, all working on their Art, and my show imminent, and a beautiful sunlit day here on the river. Ahhhhh.... Wish you were here.