This 'n That....

...to end a week filled with inane goings on in Alabama (I mean, really!  Roy Moore?!  What a pathetic monster!  You know, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.  And people are still planning on voting for this pervert!), Al Franken (oh, Al, what the hell were you thinking?!), Kevin Spacey (does this ever end?), the GOP tax plan (yeah, great, cutting trillions of dollars from our economy...we already owe China trillions! Not to mention the lower and middle classes getting screwed yet again but the millionaires coming out smelling like a rose), another shooting in California (but please, oh, please, let's not do anything about gun control!), the orange fu*kwad making it okay to kill elephants!!!!! (wish there was open season on orange fu*kwads!).  Seriously....this world is a crazy place.  How do you explain any of this to your children?

On a much better note, I'm rehearsing a fabulous play by a new resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, Zina Camblin, directed by the completely lovely Erin Kraft.  I get to play Marla.  Here's the description put out by Dramatists:  

This is the most important day of Marla's life. Well, aside from the day she found Jesus. As she preps her rural Missouri home and the rest of the family for a special visitor, a storm is brewing outside, made even more apparent by the visitors arrival and disruption of the family dynamic. The visitor is Marla's biological bi-racial daughter Jessica, who she has not seen since the day Jesus told her to give her up for adoption on the day of her birth. Despite Marla's attempt at keeping everything rainbows and sunshine with finger foods and a family bonding game of Taboo, Jessica's reason for the visit prompts questions that trudge up things about the past Marla nor her family are ready to face.

A terrific cast, a terrific play, terrifically fun.  I'm so lucky I can focus on this and not all of the insanity going on in our world right now.  I hope you're finding some respite from the madness and getting psyched to celebrate one of the best American holidays:  Thanksgiving.  I know there's a lot to give thanks for.  I guess one of the biggest ones this year is that I'm not the orange fu*kwad! ;-)

May your day be filled with all things delightful, delicious, and dreamy.