Straw poll from NOTE is in and neither of the two plays I was most passionate about, CURRENT and EYE MOUTH, are in the lineup. Time to plan to do them elsewhere. I thought it’d be fun to start a list of the projects I really want to direct:

FLATLAND (and adapt)
EYE MOUTH GRAFFITI BODYSHOP by Ron Allen
CURRENT by Aaron Henne
UNTITLED W.H. AUDEN BALLAD PROJECT
“Victor was a little boy,
Into this world he came,
His father took him on his knee and said,
Don’t dishonor the family name…”
THE MISANTHROPE (re-translate)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (choral)
OEDIPUS (choral)
All the Greeks, but starting with this one.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
SOMETHING CLOUDY, SOMETHING CLEAR (All I do is rip off Ted)
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (And Jean-Marie Apostolides’ production of this was so amazing – I just love the play so much I’d be ready to go on that journey again…)
L’ILLUSION COMIQUE
THE PHILANDERER
THE REAL THING (for old times’ sake…Elizabeth, Fran, & Gary…)
SUNDIATA PROJECT
BEOWULF (so long in the making, and pre-empted by Taymor, but hell…)
GILGAMESH (Dan and Cindy kind of have a jump on this one)
HAMLET
THE COUNTRY WIFE (very high on the list)
THE SEAGULL (Am I finally growing up into Chekhov?)

I think this is going to have to migrate into a wishlist page.

I don’t know why I’m so damn excited about a choral Oz all of a sudden, except that I always think of that “Follow the yellow brick road…” stychomythia as the perfect example of erfroren – gestaffelt – zusammen development (and I think that means frozen – staggered – together, but obviously, my German’s not what it was and it was never much!)

Follow the yellow brick road…A choral Oz with a cast of like fifty. Obviously in the reality of unemployment, my dreams are as big as they can get.