Now, while I’m waiting for the next words from my publisher (about price, promotion, marketing, etc.), I will try to catch up with—so much.

The Plays: I saw Birds of a Kind, by Wajdi Mouawad, an incredibly gifted writer. I saw his play Scorched about 15 years ago and it is seared into my brain. He has a long and varied resume. You can look him up. This play new to me but not new, was a long time coming to Stratford. Inspired by a book, Trickster Travels by Natiale Zemon Davis (who Antoni Cimolino calls '“one of the world’s greatest living historians”), and commissioned by Cimolino (but not then accepting— too busy), Mouawad actually wrote and presented the play as his first offering as the new Artistic Director at Le Théatre de la Colline in Paris, where it won the Grand Prix in the 2017-/18 Paris theatre season. The play is dazzling and takes work.—by the audience. I’m still absorbing it and I think I must read it. It is performed in multiple languages : German, Hebrew, Arabic and English (English sub-titles are provided, where necessary, as in opera productions). This does not begin to give you any idea of the story , its symbolism, the power of its performers, or its impact and significance in today’s world. But that’s all I’m going to say. I have homework to do.

More anon.

Are you glad I’m back?