Errr....
27/2/2009
I don't really know how to explain myself here... It's been six weeks since I last said anything at all. Coincidentally, it's been 6 weeks since I got back into life at uni ;-). There's been plenty to say, but no time to say it.
First up, a few absolutely wonderful moments in supervisions - I've had the two best papers this term (philosophy and doctrine), and have had the chance to argue deep magic with some of the finest minds in the world. The philosophy supervision on Descartes was a particular highlight, and I think I even managed to persuade Dr Re Manning that the cogito stands. Or at least, he let me leave thinking I had, which is good enough ;-). Kenosis in doctrine was a pleasure as ever :-D.
Then comes theatre, in great quantities. It seems to have become What I Do. (Not that I'm neglecting the choir that caused such excitement last, but simply that while that stays at a constant level of commitment, I fill more and more of my time with theatre). As well as seeing a couple of really outstanding shows (in particular the ETG's Hamlet), I've got involved in a couple of good'uns: 42nd St was the big one, at the (professional) Corn Exchange, with a 4:30am start to the get-in, and a rather big job for the LXs. Death of a Salesman was a much less major commitment, but if anything was a better show to watch. And now comes the big one, for me at least. It's a small show, hardly noticable amongst the flurry of student theatre in cambridge, but The Chairs (next week's lateshow at the ADC) will be the first real cambridge show I've designed lighting for. Indeed it's the first show I've done serious LDing for at all. I'm beginning to see quite how much goes on under the surface, and some of it I ain't liking so much (mostly the forms - the rest is, as ever, overwhelming but exhilarating).
So that's where the next week will go...