~Friday~ Tonight, Bob and I attended the annual 10 by 10 performance at The Arts Center in Carrboro. This year we went with Sarah and Andrew, and Kim and her friend Ed. We ate at The Spotted Dog beforehand, where I had Fish & Chips. As I have in the past, I created a ballot … Read more
~Friday~ Tonight I attended opening night of Manbites Dog Theater‘s area premiere of The Best of Enemies, where we had honorary audience members—two of the “real” people who were being portrayed in the play, and two of whom were the children of one of the people being portrayed in the play. If you’ve lived in … Read more
~Saturday~ My friend, Gregor, started his own theater cooperative—Common Wealth Endeavors—recently, and tonight I had the pleasure of attending my first performance of said company. The Set of Many Moons Synopsis: In Many Moons, Juniper is looking for love, Robert is trying to avoid it, Ollie doesn't know what it is, and Meg has resigned … Read more
~Friday~ Bob and I saw the 12th annual “10 x 10 in the Triangle” tonight at the Arts Center in Carrboro, which consists of 10 Actors, 10 Directors, 10 Plays, 10 Minutes (Each). I’m going to attempt to give a short synopsis of each of the plays, and then I’ll share Bob’s and my ranking … Read more
~Saturday~ My friend Bob and I had the pleasure of seeing this original adaptation of interviews with former slaves from North Carolina. The program featured excerpts from The Slave Narrative Project1 in the late 1930’s, and was actually “staged” on Horton Grove Plantation—the plantation holdings of the Bennehan-Cameron families were among the largest in pre-Civil War … Read more
~Thursday~ Synopsis: Is all fair in love—even murder? Self-absorbed Arlene is married to blundering car salesman Paul, who adores her. Arlene’s lover Mitchell, a dentist who fancies himself an irresistible ladies’ man, joins her to plot the murder of her husband. But wait—a betrayal shifts the alliances and the intended victim. A rambunctious suspense comedy … Read more
~Thursday~ Tonight I attended the preview performance of Manbites Dog Theater‘s current production, The Homosexuals. Synopsis: When Evan, a young gay man, first arrives in the city, he encounters a group of friends who welcome him into their family and change his life in ways he could never have imagined. A sexy and funny tale … Read more
~Saturday~ Tonight I saw Mike Daisey perform his one-man show (which all of his shows are) called American Utopias, which I found extremely compelling in spite of my skepticism before going. My skepticism—and angst, truth be told—was due to Daisey’s debacle of a year or so ago with regards to his show called The Agony … Read more
~Friday~ As I watched Manbites Dog Theater’s current show—Seventy Scenes of Halloween, which is being remounted 25 years after its first run as the theater’s first show in 1987—I was thinking, “This is the kind of theater that Manbites has built its reputation on.” I tried to imagine just “coming across” this theater company and … Read more
~Friday~ I was up at around 8:30 and set out for a “day in the city,” leaving my gracious hosts to work from home. I stopped at the close by Tal Bagels, where I had an egg and cheese bagel and some coffee for breakfast. Here are a couple of Facebook status updates I made … Read more