Day 13, Weds 6/11
I stayed up all night the night before and finished the rewrite of TO DIE IN ATHENS, and spend the day dazzled with colors and sleeplessness. I start furiously casting it. This rewrite is good enough that I can tell the reading is really going to happen.

The afternoon in San Francisco: TJT, visiting Audrey’s studio (orange and rainbow-based computer-generated art) 826 Valencia, taxidermy store, GoodVibes, Dolores Park, WeBe Sushi. Home and the final Scrabble rematch. (NEATH, HOARY.) A great meeting at TJT, and hopes for future collaboration.

Day 14, Thurs 6/12
Last day in the Bay. I go to the Stanford bookstore and buy the blue notebooks I can’t live without. 2 final meetings with Stanford professors, including one with a classicist who tells me that every single Greek choral passage has a different meter. I go through the entire script of TO DIE IN ATHENS with him. He tells me about a Pindar chorus which is supposed to be so “difficult” rhythmically that classicists contend that it couldn’t possibly be performed by a chorus – that it has to be a single actor “pretending to be a chorus.” I vow to disprove this.

Tomorrow we head for the mountains, to be in Los Angeles by Tuesday.