For the past week....

cityboy has been at Friends, subbing every day--one session after that around 145th and then a return home to rest and get ready for the next day. Intense but meaningful. Proud of myself for getting it all done.. Not much else to report on the social, political (I missed the past BAN meeting) or theater side.
Today: I will go to the Preludes on 34th and 5th in the afternoon, where I have several friends participating in showing some "works in progress". Nice to see  and interact with the "community" again. Then I have chosen to go to the Access Theater, a small space (actually two spaces) where four A.R.T. graduates are putting on a "Checkhov Mishmash" This is the kind of theater event that interests me, even if I don't know the people involved. Hopefully there should be a lot of passion and energy, and also I enjoy watching theater takes on "texts" that is, plays that are already written. A lot of the newer companies are exploring that (and have been for the last 15 years)---quite a change from the sixties, seventies and eighties, when this was never considered. Should be interesting; at least I hope so.
Saturday saw Scraps,at the Flea, a passionate but somewhat overwritten play about four members of the black community in Bed-Stuy dealing with the death of a close friend who was killed by a policeman while he was unarmed. Lots of feeling there, and good acting, but some hard to understand coincidences and the second part of the play though inventive, was too much in your face. Also, when the audience (about 3 fifths white) left, we were greeted with an empty auditorium. Shouldn't there be some message or statement after the play about how this audience can get involved and help alleviate the difficult situations that the play illustrates. Would love to talk (confront) the artistic director of the Flea (also the play's director) about this.
  Last Sunday, again, lots of walking---decided not to see a movie around 6---good idea since it was about that time that the teacher I subbed for contacted me and asked me to work for him.
  Will report soon.