I have been working a long time today on my reviews of Theater of the Arcade and Smoke the New Cigarette, but because I am writing them for this blog and have a theme emerging and have now just seen Ian W. Hill's Antrobus and Gone at The Brick, which functions as an interesting contrast to the other two, I am going to wait until tomorrow to publish these reviews, and make it more into a long essay/review.
For now, I will say it was another long day, which started with a phone therapy session, a lot of crying and then going to see a lot of theater and meeting a friend of a friend who went to one of the shows with me. It's just strange days. And like usual, by the end of these days, I need sleep.
The evening started with stifling humidity then a downpour after the sky darkened ominously with the requisite thunder and lightening. On my way to the show, I sat next to a woman who referred to the subway as a tube and asked her if she was from London, which of course she was. She, like most people from London, cannot understand why I live there when I could live here. Many of my friends in NYC envy the fact I live in London. Go figure.
Oh, my second review for nytheatre.com of the show Virgie (from Australia) can now be found at this link: nytheatre.com
And now goodnight.
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"We struggle with dream figures and our blows fall on living faces." Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I am now transitioning into being married again with a new surname (Barclay-Morton). John is transitioning from Canada to NYC and as of June 2014 has a green card. So transition continues, but now from sad to happy, from loss to love...from a sense of alienation to a sense of being at home in the world.
As of September 2013 I started teaching writing as an adjunct professor at Fordham University, which I have discovered I love with an almost irrational passion. While was blessed for the opportunity, after four years of being an adjunct, the lack of pay combined with heavy work load stopped working, so have transferred this teaching passion to private workshops in NYC and working with writers one on one, which I adore. I will die a happy person if I never have to grade an assignment ever again. As of 2018, I also started leading writing retreats to my beloved Orkney Islands. If you ever want two weeks that will restore your soul and give you time and space to write, get in touch. I am leading two retreats this year in July and September.
I worked full time on the book thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign in May 2014 and completed it at two residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Wisdom House in summer 2015. I have done some revisions and am shopping it around to agents and publishers now, along with a new book recently completed.
I now work full-time as a freelance writer, writing workshop leader, coach, editor and writing retreat leader. Contact me if you are interested in any of these services.
Not sure when transition ends, if it ever does. As the saying goes, the only difference between a sad ending and a happy ending is where you stop rolling the film.
For professional information, publications, etc., go to my linked in profile and website for Barclay Morton Editorial & Design. My Twitter account is @wilhelminapitfa. You can find me on Facebook under my full name Julia Lee Barclay-Morton. More about my grandmothers' book: The Amazing True Imaginary Autobiography of Dick & Jani
In 2017, I launched a website Our Grandmothers, Our Selves, which has stories about many people's grandmothers. Please check it out. You can also contact me through that site.
In May, I directed my newest play, On the edge of/a cure, and have finally updated my publications list, which now includes an award-winning chapbook of my short-story White shoe lady, which you can find on the sidebar. I also have become a certified yoga instructor in the Kripalu lineage. What a year!
And FINALLY, I have created a website, which I hope you will visit, The Unadapted Ones. I will keep this blog site up, since it is a record of over 8 years of my life, but will eventually be blogging more at the website, so if you want to know what I am up to with my writing, teaching, retreats and so on, the site is the place to check (and to subscribe for updates). After eight years I realized, no, I'm never turning into One Thing. So The Unadapted Ones embraces the multiplicity that comprises whomever I am, which seems to always be shifting. That may in fact be reality for everyone, but will speak for myself here. So, do visit there and thanks for coming here, too. Glad to meet you on the journey...
I hear you on the "why would you live in...when you could live here?" comments. First, it was, "why would you leave California?" Then, it was, "why would you leave NYC?" Next, I suppose it will be, "why would you leave London?" Perhaps this last question will not be posed. If I were doing the asking, then I certainly would!
ReplyDeleteGreetings from sunny London!