I escaped to “sunny” California (to be fair, I don’t think the sunny moniker applies to Northern California) to see Sara and Shawn and shake off some of the endless Portland rain. Or at least experience some warmer temperatures. Unfortunately, I found the same weather I left behind. And my first morning it snowed!
I attended a Thursday night showing and by the time I got there I was a bit grumbly because (1) Thursday is a school night and I don’t love being out on school nights any more than I am due to square dancing and (2) I rode my bike and it was cold and kind of drizzly.
But, but, but! This play was so funny and so well acted I was extremely happy I attended. It takes place in 1973 after a successful campaign for J.P. Madison, who will be Atlanta’s first Black Mayor. Things become complicated when his ex-wife Eve (the hilarious Cycerli Ash) comes back to town.
Like all plays that have ended their run, this production isn’t available to you, but I encourage you to attend if it is produced in your area. You can read about it here or watch a production video on You Tube here.
He’s gotten quite scrawny and his fur is doing that old-kitty thing, but he’s still a good Sentinel who checks on me while I’m working.
Here we have Poke Root (upper left corner); Flux (leaf thing in the middle that sprouts out of the frame; Echoism (loopy thing in upper right corner); Festune (tire thing in lower corner); Shattuck (my favorite new thing: the ribbed thing in the middle; Printemps (swirlies on the left); and the very dramatic Purk (beaded looking thing in upper left below Poke Root)
I really enjoyed shading this one.
