I’m in the lobby of the play we’re about to see. I’m being a really big ass to everyone for some reason. This guy keeps messing with my computer. I have so many thumbnails of pictures and files on my desktop that you can’t see the desktop photo. For some reason he keeps trying to put pictures into files so you can see it. I’m getting so angry! I keep hitting apple-Z every time he does something to undo it. He has really long arms, and he keeps reaching through my arms to move pictures. I’m getting really really mad but using my anger ineffectively. Finally I realize the play’s going to start, so I go inside. I bring my computer and something else - the two most important things I have. My computer beeps kind of strangely when I close it.
I walk through the door, even though I don’t have the card that acts as the ticket. The show has kind of already started, so I find a seat as quickly as possible. I’m in like the 12th row of an 18 row theatre. It’s mostly empty. Elizabeth B is up in the front, I can see her curly hair. I wish I had sat with her! Instead I’m back here, behind some other people. My parents are right behind me, but we’re not really talking. It’s awkward.
The show is people from the circus center. Alec is in it, and Kelli, and Paoli. They’re doing a pretty ridiculous tap-dance number that features more twine canes than there are actors. They throw the canes around, bounce them on the floor so they do flips in the air, and dance with them. Everyone is running around and singing their little hearts out! I don’t know why I’m not also up onstage. Paoli has a lot of energy and is running and jumping with everyone, even with her broken foot and two crutches. The canes are made of thick twine so they stand up on their own, but they’re still somehow kind of floppy. The whole cast is doing rolls around. There are so many people on the tiny little stage that somtimes they roll on top of each other! At one point a big group is rolling downstage right and Alec somehow ends up rolling direclty on top of a girl with a red unitard. I laugh at it.
Then later that girl is in the tree with toothpick flags stuck in her. It means she’s dead! There are quite a few people in the tree, and now the contortionist Ember is there too! She’s been shot near the hip but she continues to do contortion in a really macabre fashion. I’m still really impressed, but also grossed out. Her bullet wound keeps getting thrust forward as she curls her head back towards her own spine. She says “Compared to typical Mongolian Contortion, this isn’t pain.” Haha! She’s draped in the tree with toothpick flags, too.
