The Great New York City Flood of 2007 hit New Haven today.  It’s been raining all day.  At one point, the temperature dropped into the mid-50s.  I had to run out of a coffee shop this afternoon to buy a sweatshirt, because I was freezing.  Gore really is a modern-day Cassandra. Liz and I met with Krista to discuss the rest of her fellowship year and Filling.  It sounds like K— is really beefing up Filling.  I can’t wait to read the next draft.  She also showed me the outline for her newest new play.  The play’s tentatively titled Teen Flush.  It’s typical K– : wildly imaginative, absurd and deeply deeply sad.  All these desperate teens.  I don’t want to say anything else about it, except that the premise so madcap – it’s almost Mel Brooks (with a good dose of John Hughes). This evening, Liz and I took the group to a Bru Bar, a pizza restaurant near our apartments.  While the pizza isn’t nearly as good as the pizza at Pepe’s or Sally’s, Bru Bar still has some pretty darn tasty pies.  They sat us in a room that was sort of Williamsburg-hip (with exposed brick, pipes and a DJ platform that could’ve been a set piece from Metrolopolis – the perfect space for 1001).  Ken debriefed us on his one-man play The Search for Love; he’s going to be reading the play after Leitmotif and Kill the Keepers finish rehearsal tomorrow afternoon.  We talked for a while about one-person plays and bounced around titles (Swimming to Cambodia, Allan Benett’s Talking Heads, Sheri Wilner’s play at Humana this past year).  Throughout, Liz took photographs (Dan L–  commented that all the photos from this year’s residency are going to be of us drinking and eating.).  Then, Drew held court with a story that could have been his own solo show.  Apparently, he’d been talking to Nancy about Nancy’s experience on the set of United 93 and then launched into a tale that involved 27 blood blisters (!) on his fingers, a 24-hour flight to Greece and endless taxicab ride from the airport in Athens to see his then-girlfriend.  It (his storytelling) was pretty masterful.   

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