So I met a girl. This actually isn't new, I met her back in November. We work together. But a couple weeks ago, I spotted her reading a KC Rep book. For the uninformed, this is a listing of plays by the Kansas City Repertoire Theater, of which I am a great fan. So I strike up a conversation as we're walking to the office, and we make plans to see a play.
Skip a few days, and we meet up at the Spencer stage to watch a fantastically well-produced portrayal of Around the World in 80 Days. You will forgive me, dear audience, for a brief digression from this post's primary subject matter, for I must gush. This play was truly a thing to behold. The set, despite a minimalist presentation style, did a good job of evoking images from all corners of the globe, but it was the performances that drove this play. From the scholarly hindu to the rastafarian ship captain to the cantankerous old judge, the characters that come and go from the story play their parts beautifully and they each have their own unique flavor to contribute. From high-flying acrobatic fight scenes to the British gentleman guffawing around the gaming table to the teacup that slid from one end of the table to the other without quite falling off*, the scenes all brought either some good hearty laughter, or some edge-of-your-seat action sequences. The Rep knows what makes theater great, and they always deliver. This play was a great reminder that I need to find myself in a theater more frequently.
So tonight, we went out again. This time, we went to an art museum. We spent a few hours wandering from piece to piece, liking some and hating others. She compared one picture to Diablo II. Aw yeah, nerd chick. Woot. For the most part, we agreed on which pieces were genuinely good works and which were glorified fingerpaintings. We spent time pointing little nuances out to each other about some of the better pieces, each catching stuff the other missed.
After about two hours, we stopped for coffee before heading home, and that coffee led to a walk, and into an unused classroom on the UMKC campus. We had a debate that lasted right up until midnight, at which point we agreed that we needed to go to bed, and pick it up again in the future.
The debate was on the topic of gay marriage. We... do not see eye to eye on this subject.
Yeah...
*OK, I know this sounds lame, but seriously, this teacup scene was off the chain.
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