heat, heat heat.....

Yes it is hot! A friend is performing with a comedy group this evening, in Chelsea---hope I can make it. There is also an important meeting where hopefully the plans for the transformation of an armory on Bedford and Union Avenues in Brooklyn can be debated and stopped. It is very strongly slanted to wards apartments for the wealthy---this will transform what is now a middle class, mostly people of color neighborhood, into a highly gentrified one. DeBalsio's aggressiveness in pushing this project runs in the face of his calling himself a :"progressive". Yet even the pundits discussing his upcoming mayoral race refuse to talk about this. Disgraceful! Will I make it---don't know---it is hot and heavy rain is expected. Would like to be able to just sit it out, but should come and support the opponents of the proposal. Well, we will see.
  Have seen three plays since the last post.
Indecent---Saturday afternoon--a beautiful production, truly seamless, not a moment that seems forced, whether in the script, direction acting (seven wonderful actors and a band that fits in perfectly). I am totally in awe of it.
 That evening-went to Cynthia Hopkins' production at the Kitchen on far west 19 street. This art space is now surrounded by luxury housing, even as it sits so closely near the projects that go from ninth to tenth from 17th to 19th. Cynthia is a great performer, tremendous range, but this project at this point suffered from too much self involvement. The plays  idea, built around the trauma that she survived when her apartment was burned down, for me simply became repetitive. I am a friend of her husband and creative partner Jeff, but I was disappointed in this project.
 Sunday afteroon, Not Water--a wild and wacky performance piece in an incredibly large space 3ld on Greenwich Street, near the water. First part kind of ponderous, as it tries to be about people putting on a show about Water--but a turn in the middle lead to a fantastic and scary monologue which made me feel what it would be liked to be trapped around water---and then a soothing ending. Message was how important water is---and a warning to all of us to "pay attention".
Again, 3LD exists in a neighborhood that is all luxury housing---sad.
Afterwards, went to South Fourth and hung out with my friend Harlo, who may accompany me to a play this Friday.
That is all for now---will let you know what happens tonight, how much energy I have to follow through on all the plans.