Charlie's Thoughts

Yeah so I've basically been doing that Yale thing this week. No not the thing from American Psycho, that's the other Yale thing. Anyways, I'll start one week ago today. We had an extremely successful Valentine's day show for the VQ, I received numerous complements on the incestuous grandson I played in a commercial, so that was fun.

Then this Tuesday I had the chance to travel with the production team for "Romance" by David Mamet (A play we are putting on in April) to New York. We went to see "Speed the Plow" also by David Mamet. It was an extremely funny show, and we had a great time in the city. We decided that after eating at Yale for weeks on end, the New York pizza tasted very good (not that Yale food is bad). We also had the chance to go backstage and talk with the cast and see the set (which was amazing) after the show. It was a fantastic trip, so I'm 2/2 on awesome shows this semester. You can check out a couple pictures on facebook, nothing special, just documenting our trip

This week also involved a lot of work on Equus. We finalized the light plot and picked gels. I just got the order in yesterday, so I'm very excited to load-in on Sunday. I also got the plot for the Freshman Show "Laughing Stock" today, so I've been doing some calculations and planning for that show too. It looks to be a very busy next few weekends.

On the YDN front, we had a War Photographer in from the New York Times to talk on Wednesday. He had amazing stories, he's clearly crazy. As a reflection of this, he had stories that basically sounded like stories a normal soldier would have. But it was very...interesting to hear them. After that I went out to dinner at Hot Tomato's, a restaurant here, which I found had very good pasta, so that was also fun.

Overall it's been a busy time here, but in the past week I've been involved in the best aspect of everything I do here. Photo trips to New York, the total New York Theater experience, incredible speakers, and I even learned a thing or two and hat meine Deutsche Prufung bestandet! I'm having a great time, and have been very lucky to have been able to do everything this past week. Look for lots of theater pictures coming over the next two weeks.

Till then!