Saturday morning...

beautiful day. Where do we go from here. Only one night to report on Wednesday, and quite frankly I don't remember much about it. I think that I toyed with the idea of going to a movie, but it did not happen. I probably stayed out until around 9, then returned home to get ready for the next two days.
 What about the rest of the weekend? After one more session, I am totally free until Monday morning. Not quite clear about what my plan might be for the rest of the day. Yankee-Astro game on this evening, several possible places to watch it. But I really do want to SEE something before that, probably a movie, still anxious to see what the Meyerowitz Stories by Noah Baumbach is about. Nice, just feel like jumping into a movie---anywhere, just for a little relaxation. Will it happen? Well, we will see.
  Tomorrow is the first performance at the Public of the play called Illyria, by Richard Nelson---apparently a re-telling of the feud between Joe Papp and Robert Moses in 1959 that threatened to close down Shakespeare in the Park---nip Papp's vision in the bud, you might say-but was actually settled in favor of Papp, and free Shakespeare in Central Park (an unheard of idea at that time) continued and evolved into what we have now. I could join the line for the lottery at the Public, but for some reason I don't feel ready to do so. I really want to "decompress" tomorrow, which means probably going to Cobra to visit my friend Olivia and watch the Jet game for the first part of the afternoon, and then returning to my "haunt" at South fourth for the early evening chatter and hanging out. With no scheduled work at Friend for Monday, will keep my eye on the phone, but somehow, rather than "seeing something"  I want to be with people and interact.
  Hey, I did not really finish my thought about Illyria,---the thought is, that as a teen-ager at Bronx Science, who had heard (but had never seen) Joe Papp's vision of free Shakespeare, I watched the conflict carefully. I wonder how faithful Nelson has been to the story---also how he presents it. I am not that comfortable with the story being told only by Nelson (and by default) Oscar Eustice, the artistic Director of the Public Theater. Yet somehow I am staying away from it for now. It is interesting, that in addition to the first preview, the Public will be giving away some free tickets for each performance---something it has not done for its other productions. I guess that seems fair---since the idea was free Shakespeare--it is very much in keeping with Papp's vision--but how much else going on at the Public is? A hard question to answer, as Papp had his own concept of what he wanted people to see at the public (sometimes very erratic) and the current artistic director has his. One must accept the two different sensibilities.
   Okay, that is all for now--will report on my "adventures" the next blog.