Being the Representative of the Local Theatre in the Independent Theatre Collective

I have no idea how I became the representative of Copaza, the theatre in Quepos.  I guess it is because I show up.  Anways, here I am... the representative of Copaza. 

This means that I travel to our meetings in other parts of the country with the three other theatres that are in the collective. 

This past weekend, the meeting was in Puntarenas.  Since the director of the play that I am in lives in Puntarenas, we drove up together after our preview of the play on Saturday night.  The preview was for a private group of "Alcoholics Anonymous" who must have been so anonymous that they couldn't show up for the play.  So that we had any audience at all, we called the police who came over from their station down the street  and a few family members of the actors came by to watch. 

Even though the audience was pequenito... It was good for us to have a real dress rehearsal, since even that morning when we rehearsed in the discotec (the local night club that one of the actors owns) actors were forgetting their lines and not knowing what was going on.  Did I mention that we rehearsed in the disco?  That in itself is hilarious.  Also, whenever I go out there to dance... I feel like a VIP which is super cool. 

We had to drop off my friend's friend at the airport in Alajuela so that she could be in the play that night.  We drove there first, and then made a big triangle to go back to Puntarenas.  When we finally arrived, it was 2:45 in the morning!  But, we did get to eat at Hooters in Alajuela and have a fun road trip :]  Besides, I love hanging out with those guys.  They are some of my best friends in Costa Rica. 

The meeting was supposed to be on Sunday morning, but one of the theatres missed their buss.... so the meeting was a little later.  We walked around Puntarenas and had a photo shoot :]  There was a construction worker jack-hammering while wearing a blue woman's sombrero.... which was hilarious.  Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of that. 

The meeting consisted of talking and eating.  Also, in this meeting I became the "social action coordinator" or something like that.  That means that I record all of the social action projects all of the theatres in the group do and type up some sort of report.  Also, we are all going to have a theatre festival in November in San Jose where we have a pajama party in a gym after - at least I think that's what I understood.