| What happened? When? |
How does it apply? |
| 11/7/08 Kat (to play Macbeth) broke a molar. |
Watching Polanski's Macbeth and eating popcorn at the time. Idiot. |
| 11/22/08 Amy (to play Macduff) found her parking brake no longer working. |
Happened when she was parking her car on her way to the first Macbeth read-through in downtown Chicago. |
| 12/14 or 15 Amy's #@%$ing computer totally melts down and starts spouting gibberish. |
She was screening pix from the Macbeth pre-production photo shoot at the time. |
| 12/16/08 Snowstorm from heck hits Chicago. |
You may think we're overstepping on this one, but it happened the night of the first scheduled site visit for the designers. |
| 12/13/08 & 01/03/09 - Director hit by plague. |
Both days were scheduled read-throughs for the play. Cancelled the first, did the second sans director (and blew a fuse at one point, during it). |
| 3/29/09 - Well, we got through a couple of months without much going wrong that directly had to do with the play... And then the theatre we'd contracted (in which to perform) had to close down- through no fault of their own. (Hopefully they'll be back up and running SOON!) |
It meant our ever-resourceful trio of Artistic, Managing and Technical Directors performed a miracle by finding another space, with the same availability, within 48 hours. |
| 4/6/09 - We moved in to our new space, only to find the furnace broken, and our contact out of town for the week of Passover, all while we're having one of the colder springs of memory. |
It's been COLD in there! Ever try swordfighting when your joints are frozen??? |
| 4/11 - Still adjusting to the new configuration, as well as the incredible COLD, we had a wee fight mishap. |
A goose-egg to the forehead. |
| Tech - with nothing more than a wee squeak we found ourselves with a PURPLE set designer! |
One whole pan of purple paint straight over her head - she'll be cleaning it out of glasses hinges for some time. |
Tech - same night - turns out the sound system doesn't so much.. uhm.. what's that word?...Oh, right -
WORK. |
They tell us it worked last time they used it. We're working on fixing it or installing a work-around. |
| Tech - OK - the nights were blurring together by now - but it turned out we have no dumpster. The theatre company had switched services and their new one was not yet delivered. |
Well, if we want to avoid pests, we need to find another place to put the garbage. So we do. Arlo Guthrie would be proud. |
| Tech - Previews - Our Lady M is struck with the plague. |
She was a trooper, and we just laid off the kissing for a while. She was feeling better by opening. |
| Opening night - sterno? What sterno? |
We had a lovely reception ANYWAY - we just had to forego the turkey meatballs. Hummus, salsa, pinwheel things and dessert abounded, though - so we got through OK! |
| The list goes on... |
...and we'll add them here as we recover and remember them all. |
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