What a week!

all sorts of things happened

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What a week! I finally overcame the zipper problem and finished the jacket! Just so you know, zippers are not usually a problem for me. I hope they never are again! My daughter is pleased with her new jacket, loves the colors, the hood, and the fact it zips.

Modified Luna Jacket pattern

On Monday night I attended Anonymous Theatre annual event. Every year they perform a play where no one knows who the actors are until the night of the play. The actors only know they are in it -- as Darius Pierce the presenter said: If the actor didn't know they were in it, that would be TOO secret! But they don't know who the other actors will be until they step onstage when they hear their cue.

Actors enter the stage from the audience. Their props and additional costumes are placed on a table below the stage. They pick them up as they enter.

Before the night of the performance, each actor rehearses individually with the director or stage manager. They rehearse their blocking, lighting, sound cues, fighting scenes, intimacy scenes alone. As you might imagine, hilarity ensues once the actors start entering the stage.

This year's play was POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive by Selina Fillinger. She is one of the youngest female playwrights ever to be produced on Broadway, and this is the show that got her there. POTUS is a feminist force written from the younger generation's point of view. And it is hilarious. Of course, it was made all the more so by knowing none of these people had worked together in this play before fighting, kissing, dancing, or cheerleading.

Anonymous Theatre asks their audiences to dress appropriately for the play. For Clue I dressed as Mrs. Peacock. (I made my own dress and hat.) For POTUS, I wore a black-striped business suit with a white linen shirt, long necklace, Laurel Birch women earrings, and I carried a Calvin Klein tote. As it turned out, I think I was better dressed than the women in the play. Ha.

Me, as a 90’s business woman

The suit seemed to work magic on me: I saved a seat for a stranger. I had an extra ticket but my person couldn't come. So I saved a seat anyway, then stood watching people come in, and when I saw someone I thought I'd like to sit next to, I waved them over. I told her I'd saved the seat for her. She was perplexed, but she was nice, and I wasn't obnoxious or too chatty, etc.

Then I asked my neighbor on the other side of me if this was his first time to see Anonymous Theatre. It was. But then he told me about other plays he'd seen. When he mentioned one I hadn't seen advertised asked where he saw it. Turned out it was where he lives (a retirement community). He said they had a woman who organizes their entertainment. I said I have a one-man play she might be interested in, and he said "she's right over there." He yelled at her about me and my play, she yelled back that she and I should meet, so we agreed to talk at intermission.

Reader, we DID talk at intermission, and now I have an appointment to go see their performance space and discuss further the possibility of them bringing my show there.

The next day I talked with my actor, gathered materials for making a pitch, and floated on air for hours.

The day after that, I decided to write another one-man play (I have a different actor in mind this time), and cranked out a draft of a one-hour play that day.

Along the way, I finished all the wedding gifts I was sewing. I can show you two of them because their event has happened.

And, oh yeah, I finished the jacket.

Meanwhile, a heat wave hit and we're having seven days of triple-digit or near triple-digit days. It's supposed to start letting up Tuesday night at 10pm. The next day should "only" be 89 degrees F.

What's up with you? Are you done with the heat waves? I've had enough thank you. Are you ready for fall? What did you do this week? I hope you enjoyed it whatever it was. Or that you managed to find some joy, somewhere, somehow.