the rest of the weekend (and the vacation)

so Saturday afternoon, met with my friend Frank who is appearing in Is This A Room? at the Vineyard. Good conversation--mostly about the future of The Team, the theater inventive group that he has been with for the past 13 years (and which I have followed for the same amount of time). The stalwarts, those who created the Team over sixteen years ago, are all getting older, and their careers are changing. The artistic director is now a very successful and sought after theater director. So where does The Team go from here, and who leads it? That is what we spoke about---no real answers---there is one project that the group is working on now, which will be shown in New York in the future. Anyway, a good discussion. Frank will soon travel to Berkeley to be in the inexhaustable Gatz with ERS. We went through the cast on that.
Glad that I was able to catch up with him, then off to Brooklyn to meet Riley, the Friends graduate at a production of a theater piece at JACK. As always, I enjoyed going there. The piece, whose name I can't remember, had five actors, coupled ideas of intimacy (never spelled out) with statements from American torture victims and immigrant detainees on the border. So the horrifying mixed with oblique statements of intimacy. Some of it was effective at other times, I felt the playwright-director was too into her own head. Still, it was nice to go there, so a play in that space and introduce Riley to a different theater world.
  Sunday, off to Cobra---arrived in the cold---watched the first football game. Actually as that was going on, some "heavy stuff" at the bar, which could have turned difficult, but bar tender Olivia successfully and strongly diffused the situation. Second half of the game was really intense, enjoyed hanging out there and having a few more good conversations with Paul, a friend of mine whom I have known since Cobra opened (2012) and Matt, the mid day bartender.
  I thought I could watch the second game as well (Eagles versus Sea Hawks) but it seems one game per day is enough for me. I got restless, and took the L and the G to Gotham market where I watched some of the game and had a good conversation with a couple, Ray and his wife, about movies and theater. I also achieved my goal of spending very little money for the day, which was important since I lost some work by accident on Friday (don't get me started on that).
Rest of the day:possible sessions later in the afternoon, after that a small party at La Flaca and/or a basketaball game at Friends. Will report soon.