This weekend in the Rathmines Festival. (Rathmines is the closest town to where I live and is where most of my local shops are.) This is the fifth year of festivals and they've grown too large to fit in the one building where the previous years have been hosted. They are still in that building (Rathmines College which houses the Rathmines Town Hall room) but they are also in ten or twelve other venues in Rathmines. It's kinda cool. Not a street fair so it's not as visible, but it's a community event.
I went to a performance of Irish Hard Shoe dancing which is a style of Irish dance in that involves lots of taps and stomps. It is similar to tap dancing except there are no metal taps; just thick soles on the shoes for making sounds against the floor. It reminded me of a family friend who danced at one of my brother's wedding. It was good fun and there were lots of mesmerized children in the audience.
Then this evening there was a one-night performance of Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson. I hadn't seen it since Erik directed it in Santa Cruz and was very excited to see another version, particularly one with Irish actors. (The play happens in Alaska and I wondered what they would do with the accents. They did fairly well with what I would term a non-British standard American; as opposed to the Standard American accent learned in voice classes, they had more of a country hint than the formality of the British influence.) The production was wonderful. I am kinda amped now. For those who are familiar with the show, you can understand. It's an intense experience. It's challenging for the two actors and they succeeded in navigating the highs and lows and tensions and releases and doubts and... it was really an amazing and needed experience to see challenging theatre done well.
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