From the blog of one of the actors in SAGN, about what makes theater people unique: “it must be said that we are also, at heart, a brotherhood of explorers.” I enjoyed it a lot, especially his posts on salary vs. cost of cigarettes. It’s a familiar calculus, if you substitute “food” for “cigarettes.” Freelancing is like riding bumper cars, except you also get to sleep in them at night.

I just discovered a new theater blog – not new, but new to me – Superfluities Redux. George Hunka isn’t posting for the holidays, but until he is, his manifesto, 95 Sentences About Theatre, is provocative reading.

4. The tragic holds a place for a laughter that recognises the wonders of ecstasy and surprise.
5. The comic mode can’t contain, however, the wounded scream.

He also writes a Guardian theater blog. It seems pretty new, but he’s already writing interesting stuff about the difference between England and America in theater – critics, playwrights, productions, why the US doesn’t have a national theater, etc.