Strike

Last night after dinner and a rousing evening of "the Fiddler" at Latitude 18, Shanna, Kyle, Dan and I went to Pistarckle to strike the Island set. Of course, the actors and everyone involved in that show should've stayed to help, but the director, the actors, the stage manager and costumer were four people, and they managed to sneak out the back. So it was the Threepenny cast and the carpenters helping.

The Island set consisted of a jail cell--half iron bars, half wooden walls, and a barbed wire fence. For those not familiar with the Island, it was written by Athol Fugard (author of the novel, Tsotsi) of South Africa. Set in the famous Robben Island prison (in which Nelson Mandela was held for 17 years), its main objective is to attack apartheid through the display of two cellmates' relationship and their rehearsals of Antigone for the upcoming prison "concert."

The intersections of Sophocles' Antigone lends its themes of man's law versus God's law and whether "guilty or not guilty" is a valid and grave question given the bias of Creon's law. The two cellmates, John and Winston, argue over the play's relevance, and whether Antigone is guilty or not guilty. And of course, they vehemently argue over who will dress up as a woman in front of their cellmates and guards at the concert.

But it's over, so Tear it Down! And we did.

This evening, we have rehearsal, then Shanna and Kyle and Kaiden and I and her crew are going down to Coki beach to hear Cool Sessions play and dance the night away. Before all that ensues, I have to read more Shakespeare and find scenes or line couplets that I can bring into the two student workshops I'm doing next week...