i fully intended to drop directing this morning.

instead, i think i'm taking it. there are only four of us--myself, baz, amanda, and jess. and to top it all, we got our plays today, and i'm doing i burn this by lanford wilson. i have a special place in my heart for wilson, as he wrote fifth of july, which i reviewed at actf.

it is going to be a crazy semester. but i brought it on myself, and i probably won't get cast in arcadia anyway, so it'll be ok.

it will!

Commissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this vivid and challenging drama explores the spiritual and emotional isolation of Anna and Pale, two outcasts who meet in the wake of the accidental death by drowning of a mutual friend. Their determined struggle toward emotional honesty and liberation-by no means guar­anteed at the play's ambiguous end-exemplifies the strength, humor, and com­plexity of all of Lanford Wilson's work and confirms his standing as one of America's greatest living playwrights.--jack kroll, newsweek

now playing: glen phillips, fred myers