while I wait for my trip to the library to tutor this afternoon. This afternoon will be different, however, since I have cut my time to just work with one student. Why? I am invited to a GALA by the TEAM, a theater group that I have follwed since the mid oughts. I don't like to cancel sessions---in fact I very rarely do, but this is a chance to interact with people whom I have not seen since before the pandemic happened. Like last Saturday when I gave up a few teaching hours to go to a surprise party for a friend from South fourth days, seeing old friends for the first time in more than three years, should be revelatory. This was a world that I was once very much a part of---I saw everyone's theater work--the community knew me as someone who was excited by "indie theater" and supportive. Many good conversations---now all that has stopped---my life is shaped so differently now---so returning to the world of my theater friends seems a bit jarring. But I will be there at the space in Dumbo, where the GALA is taking place.
Sunday, yesterday, a slow day---tried to see Sea Gull at the New Group but was not successful. Not necessary to explain why---so I headed to the Drama Book Store where I continued to read the original play Merrily We Roll Along.. I am really enjoying it---its dialogue by Kaufman and Hart is very sharp. All the anticedents of the Sondheim musical are right there---sometimes I am amazed at how close the musical followed these characters. I have one more act to read which I will finish the next time I hit the store.Its a great store; filled with plays that are being put on off and on Broadway right now. Can try to catch up on the post pandemic plays, and there are many of them, that i missed. Afterwards I wondered whether I should go to Brooklyn and travel there or hit my friends bar on ninth and C, but I was tired so I returned home. Rested a bit, then went to the movie theater at Lincoln Center and saw Drylongo, a movie made in 1998 by a black film maker named Culleen Smith. Very interesting portrait of a middle class black neighborhood in Oakland at that time. The central character is a rebellious college freshman who is intent on photographing as many black young man as she can. Great to look at; the camera travels around the neighborhood and shows a lot; the story is always interesting.
That's it time to move on, though not sure exactly where. Not many tasks this moriing, so I will just have to wait it out until the party. WIll report soon.
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