performer-dashery

Last weekend we saw I am my Own Wife with the Theoroi group. The Jungle Theater was a lovely and likely place for this group to have a good time, and we received an amazing welcome to explore the theater. oh! and an awesome saki flight from moto-i!

i'll try not to book report these performances. The play auto-biographies Charlotte vom Mahlsdorf, who did not compromise herself regarding gender roles, sexuality, family, or individuality through both Nazi and Cold War Germany.

I Am My Own Wife from Jungle Theater on Vimeo.

From the Jungle Theater: 

“Museum. Furniture. Men. This is the order in which I have lived my life.” - Charlotte
The Jungle reunites actor Bradley Greenwald and director Joel Sass to tell the astounding true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Collector of antiques, non-conformist, and guardian of the past, Charlotte survived the Nazi terror and the communist oppression of East Germany. What makes her story so extraordinary is that Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a man, and lived her defiant, distinctive life adamantly on her own terms. One of the most popular shows the Jungle has produced, and winner of a 2006 IVEY Award for Performance. Not to be missed! 

Bradley Greenwald was really spectacular. He shared a story with us and portrayed the experiences and points of view of many people by himself, quite seamlessly. Or, rather, with perfectly fused seams of heartbreaking connection between very different people in history and the world. i learned very much about the Cold War, followed through a script with not just a little bit of beautiful German English English German, that piques mein Interesse für diese Sprache.

Had a nice time through the Jungle Theater with founder Bain Boehlke, as well.

The theater itself is pretty intimate... a 150-seat space with lots of plush, old art and feel of tha theata. Right at LynLake, which really doesn't have horrible parking or food options, so you can't go wrong.

And just to be sure to cover the Pacific Theater, we'll head over to Moto-i to see what kind of Japanese appetizers bring about the most meaningful de-briefing of such layers of sociology, history, performance art, stage design... etc. Sticky buns will do it for me. Mini-hamburgers start to distract. itty bitty bahn mi have completely taken me away from the important items at hand, because i'm giving my all to resisting them due to their high content of chicken.

But absolutely see I Am My Own Wife before December 18 if you can make it uptown.

Paradigm shift

Well, maybe just an inspirational shift, though it seems to have affected the appearance around here, too, hasn't it? i haven't blogged in a while, and i'll tell you what: everything is going to change. firstly, the key combination of left shift to capitalize the letter i is somehow not working on this computer, so the entries for the reasonably near future will have a bit more casual look. but at some point perhaps i'll remark on how this experience may have changed as i participate in these events as a lowercase first-person singular subjective case personal pronoun.

So i'll be sharing each performing arts event i attend, if even to just remark that i attended