meg o’connor

This was the weekend that I needed to be over for over a month now. As posted earlier, I was performing with San Francisco Renaissance Voices in the chant opera, Ordo Virtutum, and it was exhausting. I was also managing the Cutting Ball Theater’s general auditions, which meant I was receiving about five emails a day requesting or cancelling an audition time. The auditions were this weekend, and it feels great to have them be over. And I was also constantly emailing theaters about renting spaces for The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco (my most recent employer). And with running around from SF to Palo Alto, to SF to Berkeley, to SF…I haven’t had much me time. No time to soak in a warm bath, or sip a glass of wine, or curl up to a good book. Well that is about to change!!!!

My birthday is this Saturday, and I intend to RELAX. I have a new book picked out, I have a location in mind (though I would be happy to stay in the city), and I have a certain someone I would like to join me (my boyfriend), though I hear the quality of escorts is getting better every year.

Cutting Ball’s upcoming season looks to be really exciting. It looks like this:
Victims of Duty by Eugene Ionesco
Mud by Maria Irene Fornes
ThomPain by Will Eno
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

We also have a Hidden Classics Reading Series, which we host at a bookstore in the city, and the line up for the year is:
The Pelican by August Strindberg
Magnetism of the Heart by Aleksander Fredro
Helen by Euripides

And we we are hosting workshops that are open to the public, featuring a new translation of Pelleas and Melisande and …and Jesus Moonwalks th Mississippi. It is going to be a very busy, hectic, amazing season, and its coming right on up!

The Playwrights’ Center of SF also has a lot going on. September through January, we will have a staged reading once every month- I’m not sure what who or what we’re reading, but it is bound to be exciting.

I am off to a production meeting with PCSF, and then home to the Roomie, to catch up and eat some chocolate, and maybe watch some bad forensic science show.