Tired in a good way

Spent all day at 14/48 doing kraft services (chopping lettuce and washing dishes, basically, feeding people.) Scheduled for eight hours but hung around for ten...I wanted to see the 8 pm show and it was too short of time to go home, and it was hot out, plus I got fed. It was fun.  Got there at 8:45, so was there from the time the directors got the scripts until tomorrow's theme was chosen.  Tonight's was "Lifting the Veil."

I'm still impressed with how good the acting is (the actors aren't assigned until 10 am, first performance is at 8 pm.)  And the directors made full use of the space (it was in the parking lot of the Rep; there were also a laser concert at the fountain, KEXP Concerts at the Mural, and a Lady Gaga concert going on at the Seattle Center at the same time.)  A lot of entrances were from the back, and some used the outside space above the parking lot, and a couple of the plays had interaction with the band.  And nice to see the actors just going for it, standouts being Tonia Daley-Cambell in Ben McFadden's "Off the Grid," (directed by Ariel Roy Arauz; Tonia Daley-Cambell, Shawnmarie Stanton, Lisa Nix) and Tracy Leigh in Darian Lindle's "Dressed in Blood," (directed by Kathryn Stewart; Clark Sandford, Sam Read, Jeremy Topping, Tracy Leigh) the first as becoming at one with the universe and the latter having cold water poured all over her, and when she was on the ground she didn't flinch, though I did, thinking how much of a shock it is to jump in cold water when you are not expecting it.  The first about a mother and daughter out hiking, disconnected to one another as people because they are connected to social media, documenting the moments, rather than living them, when they meet "Dream" a free-spirited woman that convinces them to let go of their technology and experience the world.  The second about a girl who was murdered on the night of her prom and whose ghost haunts the local quarry.

The other playwrights were: Elizabeth Heffron, "The Size of a Quarter," (Kasey Elizabeth Harrison, Mahria Zook, Anastasia Higham, Jill Syder-Marr.) About four virgins who are going to sacrifice themselves so that rampant capitalism can continue on, only to find one of them has lost her hymen, so they go look for it. directed by Meghan Arnette.  Nick Edwards, "Statues on Hilltops," (Evan Whitfield, Brandon Felker, Jane Ryan) about a wishful memory of what you wanted a relationship to be, immortalized in a statue, directed by Erin Kraft.  José Amador, "Might've Known," (Andre Nelson, Lauryn Rilla Hochberg, Cristi Cruz) about two friends involved with the same man and only one is aware of it, directed by The Hyland/Belyea Experience (two directors.)  Eddie Levi Lee's "The Voice is Familiar," (Pamela Cole-Hudson, Christian Mastin, D'Arcy Harrison, Carter Rodriquez, Andrew McMasters), about the voices in a woman's head and how she commits suicide and them meets them, directed by Brian Faker.  And Rob Jones',"Matrimonial Hitch," directed by Anthony Winkler, (Amy Hill, Stacey Bush, Danielle Daggerty, Jordi Montes, Trevor Young Marston) about a couple on the day of their wedding when it is revealed to everyone but the bride, that the husband to be had an affair with her mother.

The sky overhead went from blue to sunset to dusk to the stars and an (almost full) moon out by the end of the seventh play.  I left after the first show to beat the Lady Gaga traffic.  Had a good time.  Glad I did it.