this morning

This morning, I finished the first draft of a new play
currently called "Temporary Everything."

I hope it's good. One never knows with these things.
I'm just so glad to have it done. It took way longer
than it should have.

Go See

God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz. I saw it last night and
was very impressed. Amazing cast, excellent
direction. It goes off on tangents sometimes but damn
it's so good. Don't miss it. She's an exciting new
voice in the American theatre you should know about.

http://www.newgeorges.org/frame_content/cev.html

I also saw Cymbeline over the weekend at BAM. I'm not
a big Shakespeare guy but I had a blast at this. I'm
glad K dragged me to it. They make the play extremely
clear and enjoyable to watch. I especially loved the
music number.

http://www.bam.org/events/07CYMB/07CYMB.aspx

I love this song

Your Belgian Things by The Mountain Goats

The men were here to get your Belgian things
They'll store them for you in an airplane hangar
There's guys in biohazard suits
Mud kicking on their rubber boots
They've come to keep your pretty things from danger

The men were here to get your Belgian things
They'll spend the whole day hauling them downstairs
I shot a roll of thirty-two exposures
My camera groans beneath the weight it bears

more here:

http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/mountain_goats_the_lyrics_11052/we_shall_all_be_healed_lyrics_35024/your_belgian_things_lyrics_379824.html

Coming this summer to the New York Fringe

Susan Gets Some Play

by Adam Szymkowicz

starring Ms. Susan Louise O'Connor

and Some Men.

Directed by a Young Genius Director (as long as he is
still available.)

Just found out today. This means I have to finish
writing the play now. I'm glad I got in this time.
Last time I applied, I did not get in. Although the
rejected play is now published by DPS so I guess it
worked out OK.

wow

from isaac

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/the_rug_removed.html

"In the United States, the NEA has a budget of $139.4
million US dollars, none of which (by law) can go to
individual artists. What does this mean in terms of
per-person spending on the arts? The United States
spends $0.47 per person, while Denmark spends $12.27
per person, which means that Denmark spends 27 times
what the US does.*** (To make the point even starker,
if we were to raise the NEA's budget to keep up with
the Danish government's budget it would come out to
something around $3.6 billion dollars) . This is
despite the fact that the US's GDP is $13.22 trillion
dollars and Denmark's GDP is $256 billion dollars"

from Kristen Palmer's email to me

Dear friends,

Please join me on May 13th at 7pm for a reading of
"The Melting Point." There are wonderful people
involved and it's very new and I'd
love for you to be there!

more sooner,
Kristen

May 13th, 7pm
SohoRep
46 Walker Street

a reading of:

The Melting Point by Kristen Palmer
developed in the SohoRep Writer/Director Lab

directed by Awoye Timpo

with the talents of...

Nicole Behaire
Stephen Bel Davies
Kate Benson
Chris Kipiniak
Alfredo Narciso
Heidi Schreck
Mary Schultz

the other review of my LA play so far

http://reviewplays.com/

"If watching a woman dressed as a man pretend to
masturbate to orgasm---TWICE! ---isn't revolting
enough for you, how about a coffee table made out of a
coffin in which the father of the family is slowly
and stinkily decomposing? And so is the play.

It's "Food for Fish" by Adam Szymkowicz, a thoroughly
stupid production in which most of the parts are
played by actors of the opposite sex. What it's about
I couldn't tell you. I left at intermission. But the
playwright has the nerve to claim that it's loosely
based on Chekhov's "Three Sisters". (You bet! Just
like
"Dumb and Dumber" is based on "Hamlet").

This is not a review, it's a heads-up. "Food for Fish"
will be performed at Theatre of Note, 1517 N. Cahuenga
Blvd. in Hollywood through June 2nd. Consider yourself
warned!"

I don't think she liked it. What do you think? Am I
crazy?

Although I bet we'll get some people in to see it from
this seemingly bad review. On the theatre company
myspace someone wrote "Masturbating men being played
by women? Where's my fucking ticket?"

pull quote from the only review of LA Food For Fish I've seen so far

"...Szymkowicz has written a refreshingly perceptive
work about how love, work and interior narratives act
to both blind and free the individual."

LA Weekly

go see it

http://www.theatreofnote.com/