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September 11, 2008

I'm getting ready to hit the road again. And again, I'll be working on two projects at once. I'll be holding auditions for the remount of "Land of Spirit" Friday and Saturday, and then going on to rehearse the new Swamp Gravy show "Ain't No Tellin'"

Oh, and when I was writing last about our Swamp Gravy rehearsals, I failed to mention that we started those rehearsals immediately AFTER we made a primary trip to the Salkehatchie Stew project. I didn't write fro mtehre because there was no internet. It's in very rural South Carolina, on the Savannah River and Salkehatchie River. Interesting stuff there. A geological and archaeological dig is being done there that is proving human habitation in that part of the US going back 40,000 years, which is some 20,000 years earlier than most scientists believed, and oh, say, 36,000 years before Palin believes there were even humans on the planet. But I won't go there. The other interesting thing about this place was that part of the county was taken over by the military during the wonderful days of the cold war, to create what is known as the Savannah River Project. They made heavy water for the nuclear bombs. I was told that when the military took over the town, and started moving houses (or blowing them up) you could stand on the sidewalk on a Saturday night and watch a line of houses drive down the road to relocate somewhere else. Now that's some traffic you don't want to get behind. So, I wanted to mention that project, as it opens in April of '09 and i may begin blogging about the writing process for it. Yep, very soon.

Land of Spirit will be remounted in the fall, and I'll be holding auditions tomorrow and Saturday to fill in vacated roles. Land of Spirit already started selling tickets to the fall remount shortly after it closed this summer.

And Swamp Gravy is in high gear now with their rehearsals. I've been home for two weeks, getting my kids started back to school, but it hasn't been all relaxation. These shows are in rehearsal, butas usual for me, I've also got two more that I'm starting to write for. I like being busy with work. It sure beats the alternative. So after I finish casting the play for Land of Spirit in North Georgia, I'll drive five and a half hours south to Colquitt and start working on scene rehearsals with Richard for Swamp Gravy. Meanwhile, I'm looking through transcripts to write the new plays for Salkehatchie and Land of Spirit's next play. Wheee. Talk to you from the Land of Spirit Tomorrow.

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