Shakespeare and Elections and Laundry—Oh, My!

As You Like It laundry pile

The title says it all. I'm in the thick of those three big entities right now. Our non-profit Shakespeare company (Greenville Shakespeare Co.) has just finished a 16-performance run of As You Like It. My director/designer/actor husband and I just hauled 15 ginormous Rubbermaid containers full of costume pieces, jewelry, props, and paraphernalia up to the attic for storage til next spring. Now we begin full tilt toward a November production of Richard III: The Terrible Reign, a Richard of epic proportions. (See my husband's blog for more info on this fab project.)

As for elections, it's post-national convention season, and I'm having to summon all of my strength to stomach the polling, advertising, speculating, and general bloviating that accompanies this time of year. I have to remind myself that my hope lies not in man.

And last, but certainly not least, the laundry. Sometimes I believe laundry to be my profession. I am a laundress. Today has been especially laundry-ing as I added my son's bedspread (why the Southern red mud stains?), a bathroom rug, and several loads of post-AYLI (see first paragraph) stinky washing. (If you think actors don't work hard, you should smell their garments after a weekend of shows.)

In between all of that, I have been able to squeeze some editing of the October issue of Trak magazine, which is due to the printer's this week.