The Play's the Thing, pt 2

In an earlier post, I wrote about the play I've been involved in, The Diviners. This past weekend we performed in the MACT (Minnesota Association of Community Theatres) Festival at North Hennepin Community College.  It was an amazing experience!  I was able to see productions from eight other community theatre groups around Minnesota.

We performed on Saturday afternoon. We had a few difficulties/challenges here and there, but were able to pull off a great show.  The cast and crew found out that our show was good enough to go to the Regional competition in Fargo at the end of April!  Along with the honor of being chosen to represent MN, many members of our show received special recognition. I'm the proudest of the Best Ensemble award given to us.

I'm still in a bit of shock and disbelief over all of this. Our group will have a couple of public performances to raise funds for our trip.  So I get to go back to the fictional town of Zion, Indiana, (the show's setting) at least a couple more times.  My greatest hope is to be Best Show in Fargo and be able to go to Carmel, Indiana, for the National festival.

Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson

My book club group decided to read Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson.  I thought it was a hoot!  She says out loud what some of us just think!  As I've always said, I'm not a professional reviewer, I just like to write and have fun.  I hope that Jenny Lawson would appreciate my attempt at a rhyming review:

Lawson gives us a look into her life.

I'm thinking Victor must really love his wife.

The parts where I howled the most were early on,

that isn't a con.

The language she uses isn't for the faint of heart,

but I'm still glad I read it in whole and part.

She is a woman of great passions

and I was glad she didn't dwell on fashions.

I don't want to say anything bad about Jenny

because I don't want her to come after me with a machete!

There were serious times interwoven throughout the tale.

We got to see pictures of Beyonce the rooster bought on sale.

Her photos from past and present were a nice touch.

We got to see the people mentioned and such.

I loved her letters and post-its!

When Jenny wrapped up her dishwasher, that gave me fits!

If laughter is good for the soul,

then that woman is whole!