One Nation Under

One Nation Under is basically the story of three couples:  Arlene and Wesley.  She's a Circuit Court judge and he's a Washington insider interviewing possibilities for the Supreme Court.  Eric and Darcee.  Eric is Arlene's son and a computer wiz who gets a job with Halliburton and goes to Iraq to make some money and escape his mother.  Darcee is a young single mother from the Bronx who gets called up to serve in Iraq as she's in the National Guard.  She's assigned to protect Eric.  Quinta and Lilifrieda.  Quinta is Arlene's law clerk, Lilifrieda is Darcee's sister who is in the Bronx taking care of Darcee's infant son Chester.  Through a series of events, mostly made with good intentions, the lives of these characters are intertwined and forever changed.  Sounds like good theater to me!  The cast has been a blast to work with.  We start rehearsing again today after two days off which, it turned out, I needed!  Took a nice long nap yesterday after a week of constantly moving.  Of course it also might have to do with the fact that I went to a Jazz club in Harlem Wednesday night with Amoreena and was out until 2am. It's pretty cool taking the subway that time of night... they were washing down the stop on 145th street and there was water and hoses everywhere.  Starting singing and dancing while waiting for the train.  Last night I took in a band(at Banjo Jims, Lower East Side) called Dusty, 3 women who sing close three part harmony in the style of the Andrews Sister.  Very entertaining.  You can find them on MySpace under Dustygals.