WHY I'M SO BUSY LATELY

From LSU's student newspaper the Reveillee:

The Exception to the Rule

LSU Theatre holds a microscope to world issues through the work of an acclaimed German playwright. Bertolt Brecht's play, "The Exception and the Rule," will be the program's final fall production.

Theater professor John Dennis directs a cast of 11 actors, comprised of graduate and undergraduate students. He said during a rehearsal that he thinks the actors believe in the play's message.

"They are here today because they believe, I think, in what they have to say -- not just how many lines they have," Dennis said.

Click here for the rest--it's not a review, just a sort of public interest piece, but worth a look just the same.

Hell yeah, we believe in the message. Not a single conservative in the cast, all of them open to this kind of left-wing agit-prop theater. Of course, I'm probably the most far-left actor in the group, so I'm totally digging what we're doing, even if it's keeping me too busy to devote as much time as I'd like to blogging. But what the hell! I think I'm a much better theater artist than I am a blogger, so that's just fine. If you're curious about the ideology involved, I did a little post on the show a couple of weeks ago, here. If you're in Baton Rouge and want to see the show, look here for info. Also, I've loved Brecht for years and made a more generalized post about his work and theories back in 2003, here.

One last thing. I got my picture in the paper yet again. Kind of.


That's my sliver of face over to the left. Photo by Wallace Levy.

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