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[sanura]

Well, that was amazing. I made burgers for Stephan and myself, and we walked to join the ItW cast at Hamman to see No Exit. It was a moving experience, in that I wanted to move out of the theater as quickly as possible. It's a stupendous triumph of a French existentialist play, the premise of which is that Hell is Other People, but either they did it very badly or the director was pioneering a new interpretation, namely that instead of having the people on stage be in Hell, have the audience be in hell. Seriously, guys, I've seen a lot of bad shows, and I've even been in a couple, but this was far beyond anything I've ever seen.

Stephan, Guy (ItW stage manager) and I copped out of the cast-bonding drinking party that was slowly tumescing after the show, in favor of having dinner with Dan. And I am ever so glad that we did, not that I have anything against cast-bonding, or dislike the cast (in fact I wished Burfy had come with us). I just missed Dan. And of course Stephan's a lark. But mainly, it was an opportunity to hang out with Guy, who's the new-to-me person from this production whom I admire most and actually want to actively make friends with, because he's so cool.

So Dan drove us to Brasil (right? that was the restaurant?) and they had silly fancy food and chai and hot chocolate and coffee, and then we retreated to Dan's to hang some more. It's one of those nights I was very conscious of the fun while it was happening, and that it's going to be "the good old times" later, to remember fondly. I'm going to be sleepy tomorrow, but I don't think I'll regret it. Besides, there was no Thresher this week, so I've not filled up my stayuplate quota for the week.

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[ohtori-akio.livejournal.com]

Trish Rigdon directed that, didn't she? The devil, that woman is. I was really excited about it being produced until I saw her name attached to it, and then I took two giant steps back and crossed myself like an old Greek woman.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

Yep. It was pretty hellish. I don't think it was her fault, though. Not entirely. There's not much a director can do with a complete absence of talent.

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

That makes me so sad. Huis clos deserves better.

And as I am in Houston now, we should do something ASAP - preferably tomorrow.

[music-dissident.livejournal.com]

Or Monday.