International Networks, Theatre and Sleep Mode

I got a new phone yesterday. It was a fairly painless process. I got a better phone than I previously had for free without the hassle of dealing with rebates. I do have a new service provider and a slightly smaller plan, but the monthly bill is going to be more than a third less than it has been. Very exciting. But rather than showing you a picture of the phone, I'll let you see a picture it took of my computer running its screensaver designed by my friend Spot:



OK, so the camera is about the same, but the service is much better, so I am happy about that.

Antigone has been accepted to the Sibiu Theatre Festival, so I should be heading to Rumania this spring. This is not the Antigone I lit last November, but another one. I am quite excited about this project. I have worked with a lot of Europeans, but have not yet worked in Europe. This version of Antigone is adapted for a single female performer. It is very exciting. It takes the best elements of the Sophocles and Anouilh and reworks them to make a truly contemporary text. The journey for Creon is a failed redemption after the fall from grace engendered by the "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely" idea.

It speaks to the contemporary United States as much as any other contemporary fascist state. I think it will translate well to an audience in a former Communist/Fascist state. Of course we won't really know until it plays, so we shall see.

A foreigner crossing Thebes on his journey
Would witness a town of order: a king that rules and a town that calmly works.
He would not see the turbulences underneath the tamed waters.

Who would say that a girl is dying out of mercifulness?

In more local news, I will be working at the New York Theatre Workshop this spring. It is an assisting gig not a design position, but I get to hang out with my friend Mark for a few weeks, so that will be fun. I have only seen him a handfull of times since he graduated NYU. We worked together for a year in the dance department there. It will be nice to hang out. Um, I mean work.

I have a chiropractic appointment soon, and then off to a runthrough for Last Word. I am excited to see what this thing is looking like. We load in to St. Clement's next week and enter previews the following Tuesday. I ended 2006 with a one person Off-Broadway play, and start 2007 with a two person Off-Broadway. It makes for a nice continuity.