…go cra-cra!! All I want is peanut butter!!! (Well, and good coffee but there is at least options). There is really no peanut butter in the country. I have been told that The Amazing Olga has found some in the past, but it took some deep digging. Why didn’t I bring it? Because the jar on my shelf at home had been there for a while and I thought…I’m not eating that very fast…I’ll be fine without it for 3 months. I even bought a new jar to bring but do to suitcase rearrangements it just didn’t fit. NOW every morning I want toast with PB…PB sandwiches for lunch…PB and apples for dinner. It’s mutiny…
Our gang is about to be assimilated into The Summer Folk production. The “children” in the show will be away for 3 shows so they will be replaced by the 9 of us. We will be reciting a couple of Gorky poems and doing a scene from The Seagull. I suppose it just takes 1, “what’s HAPPENING here?” to make this my 4th country of performance? (OMG! I am AMAZING!!!! Lou should be proud!)
Briefly about the St. Petersburg subway. Holy shitballs it’s beautiful!!! Every station I have been to is clean, large and gorgeously decorated. It is soooooo far underground it’s scary! It may be the longest escalator I’ve ever been on and I think the grade is steeper than most American escalators. Photography is not allowed in the Metro so I have swiped some pics off the internet.
Brittney, Sojin and I walked around the outside of the Hermitage. We only had about an hour and figured that was NOT enough time for our 1st visit. Yes, we could probably go everyday for the entire time we are here and STILL not see everything and for THAT reason…1 hour, the 1st time going in is NOT enough time!
Aside from rehearsals and class, we’ve seen a few shows. Robert, Brittany, Sojin and I went to a puppet theater the other night to see ECCLESIASTIC. There were no puppets…there were also no words. It was a dance/movement piece on sand! It was REALLY spectacular! The music was lovely the lighting was brilliant and it was completely understandable! It was STOMPish in the sense that there were several rhythmic sections to the piece…just with sand, 2×4’s and light bulbs instead of trashcan lids. WHY is there no MATRIX????! I wanna d/l my head and show this show to EVERYONE! On our way home we were all a little hungry and we passed the ELVIS CAFE so of COURSE we had to stop! It was a-hunka, hunka burning AWESOME!
Last night it was back to the Alexandrinsky for a $4 show of…Izotov. NO idea what this show was about! The set was impressive. There was some nice projection stuff and a LOT of book throwing! There was a nice moment when the woman’s clothing was falling from the sky. It was really quite beautiful watching various pieces of fabric fall from 30′ above the stage except that from what *I* could tell, the woman had kicked the man out of the house so I don’t know why HER clothes were falling out of the sky. However, there were magic tricks in the show. Magic ALWAYS makes things better!
JaimieF 