NYTheatre.com gave Food for Fish a great review too…
We’re very lucky here… to have this piece by wonderful Adam Szymkowicz, and the work of Alexis Poledouris and the cast, at this moment.
And crowds of folks – folks we mostly don’t even know – are coming out to see it and laughing and saying great things about it and telling their friends. And putting up with the lousy AC in the theater and still keeping up good spirits and still laughing and clapping at the end.
On a personal note… the house closing is now on schedule and the buyer is a nice lady who told my son (very sad about the sale of his childhood home) that he could come visit anytime. Gabe has sworn that he will grow up and become rich and buy the house back. Heh.
There’s a lot of stuff here all about love – defined as the moments between people where they wish each other well and strive to do the right thing by each other – and of course, all this amazing, beautiful luck.
Sure, working your ass off for 20 years and saving and paying bills and helping other artists and hoping it all works out in the end, all the promises you make being kept, etc… that’s probably part of the basis. Having a dream of making something that helps a lot of people, and that brings some more great beauty into the world, a world crying out for some beauty, is part of it. And focusing strong and relentless energy and concentrating all your positive thoughts on the outcome and being organized and cooperative and friendly is part of it.
There are probably 3 or 4 plays in all this complexity. Funny plays and sad plays. When all this slows down, and there’s time to reflect, some wisdom will trickle out of all these experiences… many painful, many almost unbearably achy, and some humiliating and embarrassing. And these will be the basis of, one hopes, some kind of art. That speaks some truth to people. That communicates the value of hard, positive, focused work and good intentions and good plans.
The time to reflect on all this is coming. That reflection will bring about those many plays. And now we have a machine that can bring those plays to people. Now we need to gather about us all the support we need to make this happen. It must happen.