View From the Bushes

Every year, my wife and I get season tickets to our local theater, Pioneer Theater. In some respects, it's our big entertainment indulgence. Every so often, I'll go see something, and it will be good but not great, but that's far and away the exception rather than the rule. In general the performances are fantastic and you end up seeing some really great works of art. Tonight, they're putting on Cyrano de Bergerac, which I assume should be familiar to most of my readers. It was originally written in French, of course; I even went so far one time as to try and read it in the original French. Unfortunately, reading Rostand is to a non-native French speaker what reading Shakespeare is to a non-native English speaker: very difficult.

As you can tell from the above description, I'm looking forward to it. Generally, my wife and I go out for dinner before the play; tonight for a couple of reasons we are skipping that part of the festivities. For one, our babysitter can't get to our house early enough and for another, my youngest child is still breast-feeding. Anyone who has enough experience with that will know immediately why we would want to keep the evening as short as possible. We'll just leave it there.

Well, for exactly the reasons mentioned above I'll have to end here. But let me close with a plug to support community theater, and for that matter Dire Kobold...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross