It’s All Good: Met with Stacey to talk about Lord of the Flies, which her character will be teaching to a group of 7th graders. She sympathized with Simon, when she was reading the book in 7th grade. (I sympathized with Piggy, natch.) I need to figure out a title for the Fringe show as...
Author: Anne
nothin’
Nothin’.
some irony
The Last Game: Reading Collision Course. Learned that Wisconsin was (in 1959) the first state to pass legislation allowing collective bargaining by public sector employees.
learning what we lived through
The Last Game: Started reading Joseph McCartin’s Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. Dramaturg Heather H. suggested that I foreground the play’s 1980s time period; so this is by way of background.
next target
Mother Antonia: Next reading scheduled for May 5.
nothin’
Nothin’. (Grant writing for the theatre.)
back to baseline
Erika: Watched a video on optimization. It’s All Good: Worked on rehearsal schedule.
reading M. Antonia
Mother Antonia: Script reading for the St. Kate’s alumnae relations department. A tough crowd – hard to read – but they said afterward that they were absorbed by the piece, and they had cogent things to say about it. It’s both intimidating and satisfying to present material to subject matter experts. One of the alumnae...
job shift
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth. I am moving out of the role of book writer and into that of dramaturg-on-call, which feels (to both of us) like the right move.
overtime
The Last Game: Asked Heather if we could move the deadline for the rewrite out a little. She said yes.