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Jun. 2nd, 2001 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianToo much theater this weekend, argh! I am having a good time. I'm sure that I'm going to like at least one of the things tomorrow, too. But I hate weekends where I'm running around constantly like this.
Last night, I didn't feel like going out. I was depressed after work because I was having one of those all-too-frequent days where I couldn't bring myself to do anything. After some cat therapy, reading, and dinner, I felt up for going to Spin the Bottle, the monthly cabaret at Annex Theater, so Wim and I went to that. It was medium to good this time; there were two dance performances, which is very unusual, and both were hard to understand but enjoyable anyway. Two musical acts, too. Normally there are more skit-type pieces. Also, Sgt. Rigsby and His Amazing Silhouettes did not perform, which was a disappointment. (They have another show going on, which I'll have to see too...)
I just got back from seeing the Ballard High School play. They put on _Mort_. Yes, the Discworld book. It was not so great, to be honest... They could have adapted the book better, I think, because 25 scene changes is just too many for a high school production. It was the last show, so the cast was screwing around. (Actually, that's a small point in its favor -- I am indifferent to happy with cast hijinks most of the time.) One thing they really needed to change, though, was the voices. A number of the actors were putting on accents and some were trying to talk like older people, and most of the people who weren't using their normal speaking voices were very hard to understand. I feel like the director failed a little in his job there. Bad or not, though, it was mostly fun, and watching them all hand flowers and a watermelon (!) to each other made me laugh as I was leaving, so that was good.
Tomorrow is the second SIFF Secret Festival movie at 11:30, about which I must say no more, and then the Lesbian and Gay Chorus production of the H.M.S. Pinafore, "High Camp on the High Cs". So I am busy. I've wanted to spend more time with Wim just relaxing or doing something at least a bit social rather than just spectating, but we're doing things separately tonight because we need alone-time very much too. I suppose it is good that we don't live together because otherwise it'd be that much harder to take time apart when we need it but don't want it. On the other hand, it would be less effort to switch from one mode to the other if we did live together... I doubt we will make up our minds on the matter very soon.
Last night, I didn't feel like going out. I was depressed after work because I was having one of those all-too-frequent days where I couldn't bring myself to do anything. After some cat therapy, reading, and dinner, I felt up for going to Spin the Bottle, the monthly cabaret at Annex Theater, so Wim and I went to that. It was medium to good this time; there were two dance performances, which is very unusual, and both were hard to understand but enjoyable anyway. Two musical acts, too. Normally there are more skit-type pieces. Also, Sgt. Rigsby and His Amazing Silhouettes did not perform, which was a disappointment. (They have another show going on, which I'll have to see too...)
I just got back from seeing the Ballard High School play. They put on _Mort_. Yes, the Discworld book. It was not so great, to be honest... They could have adapted the book better, I think, because 25 scene changes is just too many for a high school production. It was the last show, so the cast was screwing around. (Actually, that's a small point in its favor -- I am indifferent to happy with cast hijinks most of the time.) One thing they really needed to change, though, was the voices. A number of the actors were putting on accents and some were trying to talk like older people, and most of the people who weren't using their normal speaking voices were very hard to understand. I feel like the director failed a little in his job there. Bad or not, though, it was mostly fun, and watching them all hand flowers and a watermelon (!) to each other made me laugh as I was leaving, so that was good.
Tomorrow is the second SIFF Secret Festival movie at 11:30, about which I must say no more, and then the Lesbian and Gay Chorus production of the H.M.S. Pinafore, "High Camp on the High Cs". So I am busy. I've wanted to spend more time with Wim just relaxing or doing something at least a bit social rather than just spectating, but we're doing things separately tonight because we need alone-time very much too. I suppose it is good that we don't live together because otherwise it'd be that much harder to take time apart when we need it but don't want it. On the other hand, it would be less effort to switch from one mode to the other if we did live together... I doubt we will make up our minds on the matter very soon.
