February is Birthday Month

Theater Week kick off to Birthday Month has consisted of:

"Buckminster Fuller ...", at A.R.T., with Jonathon -- interesting & enjoyable
"Neighbors", Company 1, with Danielle & friends -- unfortunately we canceled for weather & ice
"Vagina Monologues", Gilly (and some group), with Jonathon, Hilary, & Erica, plus Pup dinner-only -- glad I went. Disliked sharpie on hand. Hard to see, and occasionally to hear. Quality of monologues varied. Mostly quite good. Could have been more "engaged" by the audience-engagement portions; performers should have pushed us more boldly.
(Light hang for "Lady's Not For Burning", T@F -- a few snafus, but reasonable use of our time. Annoyed by bucket-brigade style truck-unloading, since it prevented me from cherry-picking the items I was willing to handle while still in shul clothes. Later realized I could just strip to leggings while waiting for Jonathon to arrive w/ my work-clothes. The possibility that I would arrive before him had not crossed my mind, in planning!)
[Not 'Theater' but: excellent haftarah reading and Scotch + Chocolate + after-party. ]
"Cunning Little Vixen", Boston Opera Collective, with Debra, Vardit, Richard, Hilary -- very enjoyable. Storyline & lyrics fairly clunky, but everything else was great. I went for the dance, but there was also puppetry, inventive engaging music, effective and well-unified costume design (esp. the vixen, also the coats), satisfying props (esp. the benches and fox-burrow). Lighting not particularly noteworthy. Everyone audible, but I did have to make use of the supertitles a few times, due to aforementioned clunky English. Good characters.

Next week will be exciting co-presentation at work. Not sure what celebrations. Maybe Museums Week, or maybe move that to one week further out.