post vacation.  Trying to hold on to the feeling and not get back into daily freakout mode.  Not always easy.

Got to see Nilaja Sun’s “No Child“  in NYC. Met with the director, Hal Brooks.  Nilaja blew me away - her perfomance above anything.  We met last year when she read in their reading of Mallbaby but that did not prepare me for her dimensionality as an actress.   I’m always stunned by actors who can morph from one character to another so distinctly.  I think she plays 16 or 17 characters.   It also makes me know- from the personal side of my playwriting - that the challenges I pose for actors in my plays are challenging but not impossible.  I know there are actors out there who can play Mallboy and make the transitions that that character needs to make to play all three permutations.  No Child is moving to the Barrow Street theatre - go see it.
Also - back here in LA -  saw Bart DeLorenzo’s  Evidence Room swansong of The Cherry Orchard.  Could it be the translation, the production or just me growing up - it hit me in different ways that it had before.  And the end - the choice of play - couldn’t have been more appropriate for Bart.   Sad that LA is losing The Evidence Room after all that it has taken on in signifigance for LA theatre.