On Denial (or why I haven’t posted recently)

I realized this morning that I haven’t posted in over a week.

Actually, I came to a similar realization when it hadn’t quite been a week, and then again when it was just a week, and then again twice before I finally logged on to post.

For a moment I felt guilty.

But THEN I realized that, in shirking my posting duties and subsequently reflecting on the experience, I wasn’t being lazy or busy, but rather was looking for a perfect opportunity to comment on what seems to be this season’s overarching theme: denial and accountability.

And we who do theater know very well that SHOWING something is better than talking about it.

So rather than write a post the length of a dissertation about denial and its manifestations (and anyway, Eric already wrote something eloquent for the offstage guide) I decided to exemplify it instead. That–and not dramaturgy for THE PRICE or Prayer for my Enemy talkbacks or laundry or the fact that loading the blog website causes my laptop to freeze–is the reason why I haven’t posted recently.