Macbeth shall sleep no more

There is a long held belief that this play is cursed.  There are lots of facts to back this up.  (Like people dying whilst working on it). You can google it.  I've had some bad things happen while working on different productions of Macbeth.  But I don't really believe that they are related to any sort of curse.  I think the real curse of this show is that it is really hard to stage and play convincingly.  Like The Tempest, Mackers is filled with magic and supernatural happenings that test the mettle of those who make plays.  And like The Tempest , which we did a couple of years ago at SBTS, we have the good fortune of having Stephanie Coltrin directing.  For those that don't know her, and don't follow my blogs closely, Steph is literally the artistic yin to my yang.  We have the same aesthetic, but approach it from different angles that just seem to compliment one another.  The greatest artistic successes I've had as an actor were in plays that she directed.

My dear readers, all six of you, I am sorry I have been so negligent.  But this is my first day off since Memorial Day, which was my first day off since, I don't know...February?  I have started several blogs since then (and my fear is that this is just another one that will be scrapped) but not been coherent enough to actually post them.  And it would be silliness to try to recapture what I wrote an abandoned. -fun fact, I once was writing a novel (by hand in a notebook) and left it on a plane.  I probably had a couple hundred pages of my first draft done.  I never recovered it.  And I couldn't bring myself to rewrite all I had written. So, let me give you the highlights of what has transpired since I last wrote a blog.  I turned 50.  I'm ok with it. Actually, I'm sort of owning it.  (Because I may be a mediocre looking 30's 40's dude, but at 50, I'm pretty well preserved.)  We went through tech and opening of "Taming of the Shrew."  Here