Finally...it's here..the free weekend I've been waiting for. It's been a long time since we've been able to take off somewhere for a few days because of the back-to-back performing I've been doing. First at Marin Shakespeare, then California Shakespeare, then at RVP. Now that Wait Until Dark is over, I can take a break for a while.
That means it's time to head up to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Bob & Lesley Currier, the folksy folks who run the Marin Shakespeare Festival, organize a weekend trip each year. We ride up on a bus, stop somwhere in Redding for lunch, and then stay in Ashland until Monday. We're going to see the critically-acclaimed Richard III, Napoli Millionaria, and Room Service. I think they'll all be great shows--I'll be especially critical of Room Service since I performed it last year at RVP.
Po roku, podobne ako ine vyrocia ci sviatky, je tu moj den. S radostou si ho vlastne delim s osobou, ktoru poznam od zakladky a nic som o nej uz takmer dva roky nepocula. "Julia, dufam, ze sa ti dari kdekolvek si a vsetko naj". O inych neviem...
Oslava bola velmi mierna, ...hmmm...oslava? Nie, nazvem to spomienkovym dnom, teda aspon prva cast dna, kedy som pocitala, kolko ludi si na mna spomenie. Hm, tento rok som bola prekvapena. 2. septembra som oslavila tri roky prichodu na americky kontinent a 15. uz stvrte vyrocie sobasa a to si na mna ludia zo Slovenska stale pamataju. Okrem mojho otca, ktory mi pre istotu zavolal 15. oktobra dva razy, nech mi nie je luto a tvaril sa, ze vsak my sme 9 hodin pozadu...ano tati 9, nie 33 ( asi si vybral alternativu skratenej definicie: Lepsie blby ako zabudlivy). Druha, pracovna, cast dna sa zacala odvijat v moj prospech az ku koncu (nepocitajuc cokoladovy cookie na tanieri zo "zavodnej jedalne"), ked som zistila, ze mam dovolene odist uz o 3pm. Tretia osmina sa oslave podobala najvacsmi. Nanestastie tu nenajdem tych, s ktorymi som vyrastala (z ktorymi jedinymi ma podla mojho nazoru zmysel narodeniny slavit, pretoze vzajomnost pocitu starnutia a spomienok na oslavy minule, ktore v tych okamihoch vychadzaju na povrch je unikatna), a tak celkova rezignacia a nasledna apatia sposobili, ze mi bolo v celku jedno kto so mnou bude oslavovat. Tento rok to bola "posadka" Ronovych kolegov z divadla a niekoho troch irskych pribuznych, ktori mi vsetci spolocne a nefalsovane zaspievali tu americku... Normalne ma potesili...este vacsmi, ked sa bratia europski zacali zaujimat o fakty suvisiace s nizkou invaziou Slovakov za pracou do Irska, v porovnani s takymi Poliakmi, co pootvorilo diskusny priestor k objasneniu socio-ekonomicko-geograficko-historickych detailov o mojej rodnej hrude. Priblizne v tomto casovom rozpati sa americke publikum odpojilo a zacalo sa venovat popularnejsim temam. Irskych bratov osud Slovenska ocividne nadchol, tak som im venovala pohladnicu bratislavskeho Hlavneho namestia s vianocnou vyzdobou, ktoru som nosila so sebou ako nazornu pomocku pri podobnych dobrovolnych diskusiach pri pive. Ku koncu vecera som este stihla pochopit, ze pozemsky svet je fakt maly, gulaty a niet z neho uniku ked vysvitlo, ze dotycni navstevnici su spribuzneni so Sestrou Ritou (irskou ucitelkou anglictiny na La Salianskom gymnaziu, kde som studovala).
O tom ake udolosti nas cakaju v roku 2006, teda v 27. roku mojho zivota poinformujem po navsteve Imo, mojej susedky-astrologicky/reggae spevacky.
Well, we had a tense but decent opening of Wait Until Dark. The audiences seemed to enjoy it and most of the critics liked it, except the moron Mark Langton from the Marin IJ. He wrote that my character was a police inspector (which wasn't true in the slightest), that Edward was performing opening night (which he wasn't), accused me of having a Georgian accent, and even mistook Spencer Tracy's famous line with Noel Coward's (granted, they are very similar). At least if you're going to trash a performance, don't trash the actor's personally and trash with facts to back you up. His facts were wrong and it was clear he knew nothing about the play by how he described the plot, especially when he said "how long does it take 3 men to snatch a doll from a blind woman?" when nobody knows where the doll even is until 75% of the way through the play!!