Miracle In Rwanda.

I just finished a stint working on the Miracle in Rwanda theater project. It's a nationally touring one woman show written and staged by Leslie Lewis Sword. The whole experience has been mind boggling.

We remade the show for the constraints of our stage in less than 24 hours, put on the first performance that night and played to a full house of wealthy benefactors. It was brilliant.

Then the shit hit the fan. The power went out about an hour before the curtain on Saturday, caused by a campus wide blackout. This lead to a series of interesting, and quite stressful moments in which we tried to stash 300 odd theater-goers into some sort of semblance of a stage so we could do something that could be considered, if no one was paying attention, a show.

Fortunately, power was restored to a nearby building with a lecture hall and we moved the entire production over for the night. It was... extreme.

Anyway, I'm exhausted.

If you're interested in the project or seeing if the show is headed your way, check out MiracleInRwanda.com. I heard that the review from the Peoria show will be up there in a few days.

Muah!
Lyrinoir