The Birds, The Birds!
This quarter, I'm producing a play for The Phrontisterion, the student group I coordinate. We're staging The Birds, an ancient Greek comedy by laugh master Aristophanes. We started rehearsals this week, starting things off with a string of ridiculous improv games, which basically serve to break the ice between a gaggle of relative strangers. It would be a drag to describe the games in detail here, but suffice it to say that one of them is called "Bunny Bunny" and another "Big Booty, Little Booty".
So what does this all boil down to? Four weeks of rehearsals, infinite emails, phone calls, meetings, signatures, paperwork. And how is all this possible? How am I, a student unaffiliated with any academic program, allowed and able to put on a full-scale comedy in one of Evergreen's most coveted performance venues? The Student Acitivities Board, that's how. One of Evergreen's most endearing qualities is its commitment to making services and facilities open to students. If there's a will, there's (almost always) a way, and this time, the way is three nights of performance to a total audience of 600 people. I can't wait, but I'll be holding my breath until then...