Things I Love Thursday: opening nights & research edition

Things I love on this grey summer day:

* Opening Nights! Tonight is opening night of Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World at ACT. This play is so good, you guys--it's sweet and funny and true and the talent bursting out of it in all aspects is just phenomenal. I can't wait to see it all put together tonight. Plus there's a party on the patio! And schmoozing at ACT parties is awesome. And tomorrow night is opening of Hedda Gabler, which I designed the set for (and am actually done with!), and that's lower key and less fancy but still fantastic and I love everyone involved.

*Vintage Vibrator Ads! This is what I've been doing at my internship: looking up advertisements and information about vintage vibrators, for the next play this summer. This is so much fun. They are quirky and hilarious most of the time, and it's fascinating to watch modes of advertising vibrators change, and how much the ads dance around the subject of what they are, when everyone knows most of these ladies aren't using them on their face half the time. (See my last three posts for references.)  I'm about to go to the library to look up books to find more photos we can scan. These are conversations I delight to have with librarians! 

* Being certified by the S(ociety of) A(merican) F(ight) D(irectors)! That's right, ladies and gents: I have a basic pass in unarmed and broadsword and a reccomended pass in rapier and dagger. The testing went super well, we got to watch the smallsword class test theirs, and then while we all waited for the adjudicator, there was a giant game of chaotic indoor soccer. We were scrambling around the makeshift court, yelling and kicking and having that kind of let-loose gleeful fun that comes after acing a big test. And those that didn't play got all ramped up in the audience, blowing on whistles, yelling "goooooaaaaal" and trying to imitate vuzuvelas. It was perfect.

 

*&etc: making plans to teach stage combat to middle schoolers; the gentleman helping with the set and being a rigging master; breakfast with my best friend; meeting adorable poodles in the park on my way to the bus; wearing heels all day and feeling classy; eating frozen yogurt for lunch.

 

What do you love today? (Tell me!)