Okay, I’ve seen several plays now.
After my last post, I went to see Pilk’s Madhouse. It was very weird. About 12 skits that were apparently written by a madman. One of the best parts though was just an interlude. One of the actors wanted to sing a song, but the “BoothGod” kept playing the wrong tape. The first wrong song was “You make my hips buck baby” from last year’s play, BoyGroove. Funny, because the actor trying to sing was one of the stars of BoyGroove.
On Saturday, I slept in a lot and was practically the last one in line for the play “Adorable”. It was the other David Belke play. It think I liked it better, but it was a very close race. It was (obviously) the more upbeat of the two. I thought the ending was contrived.
After that, I went home and relaxed a bit. An hour later I went and saw “Burlesque”. That was a good play, but I really can’t say anything about it. It wasn’t a waste to see, but it wasn’t incredibly memorable. I would still recommend it.
Then I went to a party. Monica had finally come back to running, so when I last saw her, she invited me to a party at her place. It was more of a get together by all the people in her apartment building. It was fun, but I really didn’t know anyone. I did find out that of the seven suites in the building, five of them are rented by gay men. A friendly bunch.
I did leave at 6:30 to go to the Trevor Schmidt play, Deplorable. I like his works with the “Unconscious Collective” group. They put on funny musicals that I enjoy. And I hate musicals. I got there a half an hour before the show.
Worst play ever.
I should have known. I like the Unconscious Collective, but I didn’t like his biography of Mabel Stark. So I should have clued in when the actress was the same one as Mabel. It was billed as a comedy, but it wasn’t funny. There wasn’t much of a plot. I suppose you might have enjoyed it if it you had read King Lear. I had not. I don’t even think the lighting was that good.
And to top off this travesty, the hour long play was over in half an hour. I spent more time waiting in line than seeing the play. Someone commented that it was like Trevor had gotten a block of time to do a play, and then just threw something together. This was unforgivable.
I went back to the party afterwards. I was up until midnight there. As time went by there were more and more gay people there. Somewhat uncomfortable, but I spent most of it with Monica. Like I said, she was the only one I knew there.
Today I went running. I had a hard time getting out of bed (up too late). And I didn’t really get a good chance to warm up and stretch. Nike was at the Running Room, loaning out free shoes for people to take for a test drive. If I had been there earlier, I might have been able to get a pair. But probably for the best. I don’t want to try funny shoes on a long run.
Mike wanted to run 16km, at marathon race pace. He started off very quick. One girl, Avery, decided within 100 meters that it was too fast and left. I was having trouble myself. For the first ten minutes, I was seriously considering that I wouldn’t be able to make it. Then, I guess, my body got into a higher gear, and I didn’t have any trouble. At about twenty minutes in I was next to Mike and heard him wheezing to keep up.
Ha!
In the end, I was leaving him behind. Our small group split up at one point as Mike led some of us down the low road to be in the shade of the river valley. It’s a slightly longer route, but it is cooler and lacks a very large hill. I came in about two minutes ahead of Mike.
After the run, there was brunch. Not many people this time. They will be non-existent next week as the Centennial marathon is taking place. I’m going to sleep in.
I relaxed at home for awhile. I did some tanning on my balcony, but it was too hot. I went to see “The One Man Play”. I saw this group (note the plural) during the opening ceremonies. They were funny. But this play wasn’t. The skit that I had seen wasn’t any part of this play. It was dragged out, and everything seemed forced. There were some funny schticks, but not enough for a whole play. The hour long play was over in 45 minutes.
More relaxing at home followed. Then there was a scooter ride. Not many people showed up for that. Finally, I just saw the play “Swashbuckler”. It was very good. I might be biased because I know the actor/writer. She did many characters in the one person show. It was a little hard to follow for the first five minutes, but then the individual characters started defining themselves. It had a good plot and it was funny.
Well, that is it for now. I’m going to go to bed. I really should make myself a dinner, but I just don’t feel like it.