Last night's blog post...this evening's Dream

...vanished in a frozen moment of blogger frustration. I don't know if it was Blogger or Firefox or my own impatient fingers trying to too many things all at once. I'm working on a Mac Mini, pre-Mactel version. It does good work and I enjoy it immensely and have had minimal problems with it unlike old Windows days.

But back to the post -- I couldn't re-write it. It was late, I was traumatized by the inability to save the writing, and I'd never be able to recapture the words -- at least not late on a work night in the middle of a week demanding week of school teaching and learning.

Keeping this post short tonight as I did go to see A Dream Play at the University of Akron. The cast has been working on their version of the play for over a year. I love it that Slowiak gives his students the opportunity to totally commit to the work and make it their own. This is a really really cool version of A Dream Play. Still on this weekend thru Saturday night. Go see it. Details here.

Dreaming Out Loud -- A Dream Play at the University of Akron

Local theatre goers and people interested in the subject of dreams might want to attend A Dream Play at the University of Akron this Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 8 - 10.

The play, by August Strindberg, begins at 8 PM in Sandefur Theatre. Each night prior to the performance, special "dream" topics will be addressed in a series of free seminars:

March 8th -- Musical Evocations of Dreams with Dr Brooks Toliver, professor of music.

March 9th -- Land of Dreamy Dreams: A Glimpse at Our Other-Worldly Selves with Dr Jeanne-Helene Roy, associate professor of modern languages

March 10th -- Dreams vs. Reality with Dr. Joseph LiVecchi, assistant professor of philosophy

I haven't seen A Dream Play yet, but have read it in numerous drama and lit classes over the years. This production is billed as "August Strindberg's A Dream Play in a new version by James Slowiak." So I am looking forward to a unique world view along with the physicality and edge that James brings to his work. I'm a longtime fan of Slowiak's company, the New World Performance Laboratory, but also make it a point to check in on his work with University of Akron theatre students. If you missed Winesburg, Ohio, you missed something very special indeed.