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His play, Skin in Flames, is playing in Chicago, at the Stage Left Theatre, so naturally I went to see it. It's an extremely powerful play about deception, and power relationships, and how those who have power treat those who don't. But it's not as straightforward as you might assume. The staging is difficult. There are two separate, but related, stories that take place in the same hotel room, one right after the other, but they are presented on stage at the same time in the same space. It must be hard on the actors, as they obviously have to react only in the context of one of the events. Stage Left is a small, non-Equity theatre, and they did a very good job.
Tuesday, when I went to class, I gave Daniela the deposit for the trip to Tuscany. Fabian, one of the guys who was on the Venice trip, stopped in, and said that he and Franco are going, too. I enjoyed their company last trip, so it's nice that they are going. They have a lot of travel coming up, mostly family stuff, but the most important one is a trip to Toronto in a couple of months - they are getting married there. Kim, another woman from my class, is also going; we will likely room together.
I went to a seminar yesterday, "Demonstrative Evidence on a Shoestring". Demonstrative evidence is evidence that assists the trier of fact in understanding and interpreting testimony, as opposed to "real" evidence, such as objects taken from a crime scene. Photos, graphs, models, etc., are demonstrative evidence. The speaker used the shootout at the O.K. Corral to demonstrate her points, and in the afternoon, when we were supposed to create our own demonstrative evidence and use it in a closing argument, that was the case we used as well. At lunch, a couple of us checked out the Walgreen's and CVS but they had no toy aisles! Fortunately, there was a dollar store down the street, and I picked up a couple of plastic toy guns and a hat:
Is that not a great hat? I wore it during my closing when I acted the part of Billy Clanton. I hadn't been able to find a white hat, so I made a badge to wear when I acted out Wyatt Earp. We had a tremendous amount of fun.
A while back, I acquired a copy of Thomas Beer's The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. The cover is in bad shape (the cover paper is faded and water-stained, the cloth on the spine is torn, and the spine is coming loose from the boards). Last night, Chicago Hand Bookbinders met at Aiko's, for the last time, and I found a nice mauve bookcloth as well as some marbled paper with mauve in it. So I have a project. I bought some other papers as well. As a result, I did not go today to the Newberry Library Mystery and More Book Sale. I exercised restraint.
You may remember that my local grocery store closed back in January. A new one opened in that space earlier this week, and so I was able to do my grocery shopping today right here in the neighborhood. It's a local chain, Treasure Island, which Julia Child once called "the most European supermarket in America", and they sure do use that. They carry Twining's Lapsang Souchong in tea bags (which I need for work, using loose tea at work is a pain), so I'm content. Decent produce, vast amounts of pasta (they really could reduce the shelf space devoted to this and increase the selection of Asian foods), a good variety of meats, I think it'll work out. There were a lot of free samples being given out, including prosciutto di Parma, Emmentaler and Gruyère cheeses, and a chocolate fountain with strawberries for dipping. I don't know if all this was in honor of the opening, or if I can plan on lunching there for free every Saturday! Among the free samples were a couple of publications put out by the Italian Trade Commission. Trust me to go grocery shopping and come home with books.
I am reading a delightfully catty and gossipy piece of trash, The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glamorous Excess in 1970s Paris. Everything you ever wanted to know about Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint-Laurent and their various boyfriends and hangers-on. Lots of dish.
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croc_sandwich "Rock on" ChallengeHis play, Skin in Flames, is playing in Chicago, at the Stage Left Theatre, so naturally I went to see it. It's an extremely powerful play about deception, and power relationships, and how those who have power treat those who don't. But it's not as straightforward as you might assume. The staging is difficult. There are two separate, but related, stories that take place in the same hotel room, one right after the other, but they are presented on stage at the same time in the same space. It must be hard on the actors, as they obviously have to react only in the context of one of the events. Stage Left is a small, non-Equity theatre, and they did a very good job.
Tuesday, when I went to class, I gave Daniela the deposit for the trip to Tuscany. Fabian, one of the guys who was on the Venice trip, stopped in, and said that he and Franco are going, too. I enjoyed their company last trip, so it's nice that they are going. They have a lot of travel coming up, mostly family stuff, but the most important one is a trip to Toronto in a couple of months - they are getting married there. Kim, another woman from my class, is also going; we will likely room together.
I went to a seminar yesterday, "Demonstrative Evidence on a Shoestring". Demonstrative evidence is evidence that assists the trier of fact in understanding and interpreting testimony, as opposed to "real" evidence, such as objects taken from a crime scene. Photos, graphs, models, etc., are demonstrative evidence. The speaker used the shootout at the O.K. Corral to demonstrate her points, and in the afternoon, when we were supposed to create our own demonstrative evidence and use it in a closing argument, that was the case we used as well. At lunch, a couple of us checked out the Walgreen's and CVS but they had no toy aisles! Fortunately, there was a dollar store down the street, and I picked up a couple of plastic toy guns and a hat:
Is that not a great hat? I wore it during my closing when I acted the part of Billy Clanton. I hadn't been able to find a white hat, so I made a badge to wear when I acted out Wyatt Earp. We had a tremendous amount of fun. A while back, I acquired a copy of Thomas Beer's The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. The cover is in bad shape (the cover paper is faded and water-stained, the cloth on the spine is torn, and the spine is coming loose from the boards). Last night, Chicago Hand Bookbinders met at Aiko's, for the last time, and I found a nice mauve bookcloth as well as some marbled paper with mauve in it. So I have a project. I bought some other papers as well. As a result, I did not go today to the Newberry Library Mystery and More Book Sale. I exercised restraint.
You may remember that my local grocery store closed back in January. A new one opened in that space earlier this week, and so I was able to do my grocery shopping today right here in the neighborhood. It's a local chain, Treasure Island, which Julia Child once called "the most European supermarket in America", and they sure do use that. They carry Twining's Lapsang Souchong in tea bags (which I need for work, using loose tea at work is a pain), so I'm content. Decent produce, vast amounts of pasta (they really could reduce the shelf space devoted to this and increase the selection of Asian foods), a good variety of meats, I think it'll work out. There were a lot of free samples being given out, including prosciutto di Parma, Emmentaler and Gruyère cheeses, and a chocolate fountain with strawberries for dipping. I don't know if all this was in honor of the opening, or if I can plan on lunching there for free every Saturday! Among the free samples were a couple of publications put out by the Italian Trade Commission. Trust me to go grocery shopping and come home with books.
I am reading a delightfully catty and gossipy piece of trash, The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glamorous Excess in 1970s Paris. Everything you ever wanted to know about Karl Lagerfeld, Yves Saint-Laurent and their various boyfriends and hangers-on. Lots of dish.
