Just finished watching this crazy kickoff of the big JAW weekend: Susan Lori Parks (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Top Dog Underdog) wrote a play a day for a year, and theaters around the world have been finding interesting ways to mount them.

Several local theater (and dance) companies collaborated with us to mount a week’s worth of the cycle last Friday night. I loved Daniel (from BodyVox)’s suspension in midair (can I steal this for Cabaret?), and Defunkt Theater’s use of the side walls of the mainstage for their piece.

[Defunkt’s piece made me wonder if we screwed red light bulbs into the house lights on the side walls if you could have “Gogo girls” in the house during some of the club scenes in Cabaret. Could the balcony folks see them? Okay: I’m obsessing.]

Oh yeah: also a really cool piece about the death of Barry White – and one of the most interesting personifications of “the revolving world” I’ve seen onstage.

Also loved seeing such a large group show up for this “what is it gonna be” event.