Real Theatre

[purpleivey]

I went to go see Antigone tonight. I knew that they had set it amidst the turmoil of the present day Middle East. When we pulled into the parking lot and there were people dressed as soldiers herding the audience through the back door past trashcans with fires in them, I knew it was going to be amazing. The black box had been transformed into a

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[katelove2]

sounds like it's time to get out of sewanee and find some more of the "real stuff" to me :)

[purpleivey]

Yeah, I've known that for a while, sadly.

[katelove2]

are you headed to marietta for a bit once the lease is up?

[purpleivey]

Yeah. I'm not really looking forward to it, though. I feel like I'm losing my freedom. I realise that financially it'll be good for me 'cause all I'll have to pay for will be my loans and my credit card, which'll save me about $700 a month. And I can finally get medical insurance, woo.

I just hate suburbia so much and my parents live right smack in the middle of it. Plus I feel like a hypocrite, because I'm always complaining about the kids up here whose parents pay for stuff all the time and it feels like such a cop out to go home.

But Katherine Maddox is back in Atlanta and doing some work at a community theatre on the Marietta square, so I'm gonna see if I can hook up with her and get into the theatre scene, and the social scene. I'm also gonna look up my friend Brandon from highschool, who last I heard was teaching dance somewhere, and see if I can send some tendrils out in that direction too.