Honest Illusion

On Saturdays, I take a class in Improv Comedy.  I thought I'd share with you one of the exercises/game we did it class. The game is called ''Growing & Shrinking Freeze Tag''.  In regular Improv Freeze Tag, two people start a scene, and at some point, while in the midpoint of some action, the director (or the audience) yells ''Freeze'', ...

OK, Let's try this again (The first one got eaten by the system) Sunday was the Closing Brunch and Awards ceremony.  Here are the winners: Merit Awards (sort of like ''Honorable mention'') Ensemble Acting: Liz Keifer & Cat Guthrie, Going to the Chapel, NY Ensemble Acting: Edd  Miller, Duncan Hood, Dianne Hood, Nick Beschen, ...

After the hardy hotel breakfast, I joined in on the one ''outside'' activity planned for the weekend -- A walking tour of Historic Dover Delaware.  Being a sucker for old building, I loved it -- I should have some photos up in the gallery soon. For lunch, I gate-crashed into the ESTA Executive board meeting which they were holding in a ...

OK, so I don't write a message for 6 months. But you can always count on a good ESTA Festival to get me talking.  This year it is being held in Delaware -- just about the same length of drive as the Maryland one last year (Hate to think where their gonna send us next year --- New York or Pennsylvania. After a rather uneventful drive down, ...

Sorry, I guess I left you hanging there.....Sunday, we had the final performance, ''Harriet'' by the Serenity Players of Washington, DC. Originally a one-women monologue about Harriet Tubman, they added a second woman, who performed a couple hymns (Tubman was given the talk at a church revivial meeting, so it worked).After that we broke for lunch, ...

On Nov 19th, I started my new job at PartSearch Technologies. On Nov 20th, having realized a few days earlier that Driver's License had expired three weeks earlier, I got a new one after work -- waiting in long lines, and thereby missing Bat Boy - The Musical at Montclair State College. The weekend of Nov 21st, I flew to Fort Lauderdale, FL for ...

Ok, so, I've been a bit lax about writing this blog.  Hey, it's not like people was hanging around wait for my next report.  We all know this is just for some future researcher writing a biography of me years from now, after I win a Nobel Prize or something. Anyway,  Theater.  I remember on the Weekend of Nov 6th through 9th, I saw 5 plays ...

I've been meaning to write about last weekend's theater trips, but the whole week has been hectic, and this is the first chance I've gotten: So, recapping it all: Friday October 24th,  The Mystery of Edwin Drood by the Corpus Christi Players.  One of my favorite shows.  I reviewed it for RECT so I can't say anything about it. Saturday: The ...