postponed due to inside rain

Hour Earth, an evening of performance, originally scheduled for this Friday and Saturday at Warren Wilson College, has been postponed to May 10 & 11. The evening will include Butoh-influenced dance works by Julie Gillum and performance pieces by poet/playwright John Crutchfield. I have helped Julie and John with their pieces, and together we have created a brand new one entitled Out There Out Here, based on one of John's poems. We are all very excited about this evening of new theatre/performance art.

The postponement (as the post title suggests) is due to "inside rain". That is, Kittredge Theater's sprinkler system was inadvertently activated by a maintenance person today, resulting in a flooding of the stage floor and partial (though significant) flooding of the costume and prop storage area underneath. The condition of the stage is in question (possible warping and splintering issues) and so we decided to postpone rather than hurriedly find a new venue with less adequate lighting and sound capabilities. The theater crew must also now focus on the issue. We want to present our work as best we can, albeit at a later date. So May 10 & 11 it now will be.

It was a fun afternoon in some ways: dozens of costumes hung out to dry in the trees next to the art building and rows and rows of women's shoes laid out carefully along the sidewalk, along with a swan, a clown on a stick, a giant martini glass, rugs, half a library and colorful bolts of fabric unexpectedly decorating the normally bucolic campus.

My acting students and I are a little disappointed that the deluge did not wait just a few more minutes to occur, since, if it had, it would have coincided with a rendition of the storm speech from King Lear. As it happened, Brutus was rained out addressing the Romans in front of Caesar's coffin, which is not what happens in the script!