Workin’ workin’ workin’. We are busy little bees! A full line-up of pieces for Combustion: RESCUE will be up soon. Casting is in the works and we’ll start rehearsing very soon. Additionally, we will be posting web-only content and bossing you around a lot. Are you ready?

Excellent.

Rescue is up first, but right on the heels of rescue is covet and so, turning our thoughts to things more green-eyed in nature…

Covet: one of seven deadly sins; and the tenth commandment states pretty clearly that thou and I should not covet - asses nor oxen nor wives nor nuthin’. (Not a direct quote.) As a rule, bad things happen when you covet: Samson & Delilah (shave and a hair cut…and a gouging out of your eyes and a building on your head); David & Bathsheba (dead husband, dead baby, a lifetime of war, strife & shame), Adam & Eve (can’t quite remember…something bad happened, right?…)

At the surface, biblically speaking anyway, things look pretty cut and dry. Now take a quick look in your other heavy book at the definition of covet and you will see that it yields an interesting opposition of thought:

1. to wish for earnestly

2. to feel inordinate desire for what belongs to another

One sounds downright innocent. It’s the cartoon angel and devil on your shoulder. How about a little desire? Is a little desire okay?

As a society we are encouraged to covet but we call it pretty things like capitalism and manifest destiny. Pretty (and governmentally sanctioned) turns of phrase allow us to tap into our deep-rooted feelings of entitlement with all the pleasure and none of the guilt. What’s mine is mine and what I want I should have because I deserve it.

As it was put so deliciously succinctly in an episode of Buffy : Want. Take. Have.

Tricky too is the fact that you can be covetous of anything: time, goods, good fortune, talent, company, release, seats behind home plate at Yankee Stadium. (Ahem. Just a random example.)

When is it okay to be greedy? To want what isn’t yours? Justification is generally easy to create and readily available even from the most level-headed among us. We are programmed to reward ourselves - you deserve it! You work hard for the money! So hard for it, honey.

Temptation and desire are excellent drivers of art. So get a little dark with blue-green envy and see what you come up with. Then do share!

Us? We’ll be over here singing “Tempted” and jealously craving your attention as we are ever yours,

SP3

We’re still walking on air after Start ‘er Up and so we blow kisses and send out a huge thank you to everyone who came out for our Launch Party! It was a smashing success on a beautiful night and we’re already talking about our next fete. Thanks also to everyone who helped, donated auction items, bid on auction items, danced and were just fabulous in general. Check out the side bar for some pictures of the evening.

If you weren’t there, you’ll just have to make it up to yourself by being there for the next one…

…but before there is a next one, we’ve got some combusting to do. Combustion: RESCUE is coming right up on September 28th and in anticipation of our second Combustion on October 12th we officially announced the second WORD at the party. On October 12th we will present Combustion: COVET. Oooo. Scandalous! Just like we like it. So get to storming on your own and let us know if you have anything covetous you’d like to contribute.

So sad and lonely storming on your own? Don’t be blue - storm with us instead! We’re downright stormtastic. Stormy Monday details can, as always, be found on the sidebar.

Saving a spot for you on our dance card,

SP3