We're here!

Brief update - (hi - it's Llysa, at Panera Bread - free wifi! and yummy pastries!)

arrived after a flight direct to Orlando... let me tell ya - when your average flight in the last six months is 15 hours, a five hour flight seems positively SPEEDY. Much more boring not to have one's own tv screen in the seat back 15 inches from my face, but it's good to not be distracted sometimes... the clouds were fantastic, and cruising over the USA's topogrpahy is fascinating. Saw lots of interesting structures and patterns that if I had time, it would be very cool to research and find out WHY...

Landed in Orlando - got smacked upside the hair with humidity, got our rental car (did you know that in the state of Orlando, ANY extra driver is an extra charge of $9/day?? Even if married? Andrew is Driver X this trip...

Landed at our fabulous hosts - Kelly and Paul of the lovely home, cute cats and view of Lake Copeland...

now off to pick up Amy Salloway at the airport, direct from Minneapolis, who is coming in to perform KISS ME ALREADY, HERSCHEL GERTZ. She worked with us in Seattle in the days of Yore, debuting in the Elephant's child in our first ever adaptation to the stage. Yay!

COOLEST THING SO FAR ABOUT THE ORLANDO FRINGE - other than Beth, Ryan and Mark - the visual fringe aspect - I am looking forward to more of that.

anon, anon. Anyone have any food recommendations?

Here we go AGAIN! ORLANDO FRINGE 2007

Well, well, well... here it is , monday morning, and I am sitting here with my coffee, in my robe, contemplating with some amazement that this time tomorrow, I will be shuffling around an airport, nay- perhaps even boarding a plane AGAIN! This time, the simpletons are heading East, into the sunrise, to the world within a world that is the Orlando Fringe!! (orlandofringe.org)

We can hardly believe... so many things! Last time we performed in Orlando, we took JUSTICE - a brutal comedy by Kate Schlemmer, a Canadian writer. (Who - coincidentally, I saw in Seattle at the Seattle International Film Fest two years ago)This year, 52 PICK UP, by TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi, Canadian playwrights. TJ will also be in Orlando, and I just had a great chat with a friend of Rita's - small world! (Rita is happily ensconced in Calgary)

Life is definitely full of whirled peas right now for all the simpletons - we are two weeks in Orlando, home for 6 jam-packed days, then off to Atlanta for 6, where we will be performing 52 PICK UP for ART Station in Stone Mountain. (www.artstation.org)

We have joined current, nearly even old-fashioned technology, and now have a mySpace page (thanks, Andrew!) Please ogle it at myspace.com/theatersimple, and hey - BE OUR FRIEND!

There will be dispatches from the road again - we are thinking about lots of things in terms of plays, ideas, collaborators, vision, and we'll probably work 'em out online. Let us know what's up withchoo.

sailing into the sunrise soon -

Llys