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L'EFFET DE SERGE
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Theatre
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The trick, of course, is to invite the boy to a play, confirm a time to pick him up and then disconnect the call.
Don't answer when he calls back. He's just looking for more information, and the more information you provide, the less likely he'll be to attend.
And so you build suspense.
The play, tonight, was "L'EFFET DE SERGE" at the Grand, the last on my season tickets. I'll be renewing....
Now the Grand has lost it's partner, The Velvet Lounge, who handled the food/drink side of the theater. It was hard, really, to see how they made it, the before and after theatre crowd aren't enough to support a business that has bills 365 days a year and shows perhaps only 50. And the position of the bar, well, chances are if you weren't seeing a play you weren't popping in for a drink. Add to these handicaps the fact that if you think restaurants are bitchy and political atmospheres, what with all the out of work actors and writers and such, imagine what it's like when the restaurant opens next to the theater, with it's employed and presumably successful actors and writers and such.
It boggles the mind.
And so the boy and I are there, in the lonely empty space occupied formerly occupied by the velvet lounge, now subcontracted to some anonymous catering company that takes the liberty of charging me $8.50 for a 3 oz. glass of wine.
All the bitchiness and politics aside, I miss the Velvet.
It's a good space, this, and I hope they find a way to make some sort of restaurant/theater partnership work. But it won't be easy...
The play, "Experimental Theatre" - well, it leaves us at a loss. Not good or bad at a loss, just taking some time to digest. It's the sum of ordinary and peculiar events in the life of Serge, part of an ongoing look into people's lives as conceived by Philippe Quesne of Vivarium Studio. It's curious, thought provoking, unconventional, these are good things.
Links: La mélancolie des dragons & La mélancolie des dragons - his next production.
Ordinary Treasures
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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On the rounds of the thrift shops the past few weeks, the weather having stalled the launch of Garage Sale Season.
Finds include an assortment of fine vintage cufflinks, the click-fit of gold plate and glass rubies, enamel and paste diamonds, but pretty (and sparkling) nonetheless. A handful of antique postcards - a couple of which are remarkable and I shall be loathe to send them on until I've scanned them into the computer. A 1967 Cougar Quarter (actually a Bobcat), found in my change is as well a pleasant surprise. And to round it all off, a (Canadian) 1st edition of Miracle on 34 St and a copy of Peter Fleming's "Brazilian Adventure", which I'll review shortly.
In short, the ordinary treasures one finds while passing time until the garages open and the treasure hunting can begin in earnest....
Mice, Guineau Pig & Adder
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm looking through a glass door into my house and I can see a mouse and I determine to catch it.
I've had mice before, I'm not going through this again...
Inside, the cats are hiding from the mouse (mice) in the dark, a guinea pig is waddling along, it's back torn open so I can view the organs within, there is the heart and the kidneys...it looks serious and I'll attend to it as soon as I catch the mouse....
It's in a dark corner, fleeting by a furnace duct, and somehow I sweep it up and ... (?) ... but I know there are more. There are always more. And so I go into a cupboard above the stove, there are loads of buns in bags here and sure enough I catch another 3 mice in the bread, throw them all into a plastic bag, they're fighting and clawing to get out and I have to find something to do with it quick, don't want to take it outside as they'll just find their way back in....
The half-witted dishwasher from work is there, she's watching me, goes into the cupboard and helps herself to a bun and stands there stupidly eating it while I puzzle over what to do with the mice....
Then there's an adder, the most venomous snake in Eastern Canada (or so the dream tells me...), the rat-king something or other, small, and now I have to watch while they dispose of it properly...it's endangered and they don't want to kill it so I assume an aerial view of the snake catcher and his two assistants releasing it into a river, the river right above a waterfall and beneath it some dirty water, rust colored, algae filled, the back-pond of somebodies estate and he's holding the adder with a forked twig, waves it in the center of the river until it's free, swims over the falls and I wonder if it will pose a threat to the people who live below the waterfall, but this is really irrelevant...
Frank Paris: Amazing Marionettes
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