Forgive the language here, but I am super tired. It's been a long week, I'm kinda stressing out about interviews and classes and the future in general, and I'm glad that for once (probably the only time ever) I was able to come out of the Cabaret feeling like there was hope and humor in humanity.
Usually, Cabaret plays are done by drama students who like to focus on the macabre or the darker side of human nature, the lost, the lonely, and the depraved. I've seen plays where everyone dies, where many are killed, where the dead come back to life, and where the found become lost and the lost remain lost. Today, however, we explored the psyche of a man who expressed himself in his childhood room through the quintessential American entertainment of vaudeville. He sang Kermit's song about rainbows through a typewriter puppet, lip synced to a song where the singers couldn't dance, had and ended an affair with an inflatable dolphin, made fire with a fan and tissue paper shavings, and led us on a journey through the stars and planets, to Dinosaur Farm planet, among others. It was laugh-out-loud funny while still suggesting something deeper about the way that this balding man was still reliving his childhood, performance by performance. The stage was set up in a way I had never seen before, in a very traditional actor on one side, audience on the other setup (usually, it's done in a round, I think, but then, the actors have never had to move so far horizontally before).
All in all, it's been a rough week, with bursts of wonderful. Cabaret was one today. Having dinner and drinks with my best friends tonight was another. I miss having them around all the time and living in different suites just isn't the same.
Tomorrow, cleaning, reading, and packing for San Francisco. EXCITED.
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