Whirlwind activity.

Arrivals continued.   Kara Corthron and Kip Fagan (who opened a play at SPF last night) joined us and started work on Kara’s new play Spookwater.  Some pretty spectacular Yale Drama School students are working on Spookwater (Trai Byers, Ben Horner, Aja King, Teresa Lim and Nondumiso Tembe).  Aleta Mitchel, who was in the original production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is in the cast.  A Yale School of Music student (John Corkill) is doing percussion for the workshop of Spookwater.   We can’t wait to hear the work that Kara, Kip, et al. do on this new play.

We all met at Bru Bar this evening for pizza, beer, and conversation over music from a very good jukebox (The Beatles and Big Hair 1980s bands?  Good times. )  I mean, what better way is there to celebrate our residency in New Haven than enjoying pizza, which allegedly (we don’t believe it…) was invented in New Haven?   David Adjmi joined us for slices and beer and some of us had late-night drinks at a bar called “The Anchor” with playwright Kate Walat and composer Greg Spears (who is talking to 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellow Tommy Smith about possibly writing an opera based on the Tchaikovsky and his wife).

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