Sunday!

Today we had a day off. It was nice to sleep in after a crazy dance at the 13th Hour on Saturday night, and a long and often stressful week putting finishing touches on the play. It's lovely to wander Montreal without having to purchase a prop, to put up a poster, or running my lines out loud and looking crazier than usual. 

We saw our first show today: Uncalled For's Hypnogogic Logic. It was wonderful- very clever, fast-paced.  A great topic to focus on- that moment between awake and asleep and all the things that happen within. The four lovely men in life jackets (who shared a rehearsal space with us last week) are great performers, and I've admired their improv and their previous sketch shows. Truly wonderful sketch comedy- and this is spoken from someone who would proclaim to not like sketch comedy. 

A show I've become quite excited to see is "Recess." I spent some time on the website, and it seems to encompass beautiful performance as well as demonstrate and comment upon the American education system.  As an arts educator, I think about how to use theatre to share more than stories- to open discussions and to create new dialogue through creative thinking. (Yeah yeah, Meg, wanky wank wank). 

Our next show is on Tuesday evening. I'm really looking forward to it, now that we've had a little rest.