Mission Accomplished

Soldiers: The Desert Stand closed this afternoon. On the ride to the airport, my parents ask me, "How does it feel after a show closes." Instinctively, I respond, "sad," but that is brief. Work lives on and the folks who work with you and work with you well are the ones you miss and there in lies the sadness, however, you know, and again, those that work with you and work with you well are the ones that will live on, in the work and in life. Such good company, collaboration and collective thinking went on in this show, this production. Like a spider web or a world wide web, the chain reaction of positive union and future development occurred. This is what builds. And we are building it in America. Chicago. The shock waves ripple in the air though and air is universal. We've all got to breathe. Take a breath. Can you taste it?

CS Weekly is a great source of inspiration and that inspiration is visible in the area of my e-mails using Google Mail or Yahoo! or Hotmail that requires no scrolling...quotes. and sometimes it is beautiful even because sometimes both quotes speak to me...

Benjamin Franklin says, "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Yes, and some of us do both, wouldn't you say, Benny?

Jack Lemmon says, "It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." As we sit in traffic to the airport which we will arrive in time for the parents to depart from their whirlwind visit to Chicago. to see the World Premiere of Soldiers: The Desert Stand, a serious play on war...written by their son...They ask, "got anything new on fire?" In fact, I'm writing an adaptation of Gorky's The Lower Depths. I aim to set it in America. Today. A play about poverty. Economics. Drama. Comedy. Life.

In lieu of award acceptance speech, I mention the folks who made this play happen are Glenn Proud, Madeline Long, Cory Conrad, Allison McNeela, Chris Zdenek, Becca Coren, Danielle O'Farrell, Erin Barlow, Liz Larsen-Silva, Vanessa Hughes, Tresa Makosky, Amber Hilgenkamp, Anders Jacobson, Erin Fast, Eric Branson, Maya Kuper, Sebastian Aguirre, Deborah Proud, Suzanne Bracken, Parisa Leduc, the Side Project Theatre and LiveWire Chicago Theatre