Chocolate Rave

I just saw the most amazing show and I happened to be there by accident. I love when life works out like that and equally by accident I’m going to share the experience. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. What I meant to say is that my friend Carl is also going to see this show by accident, meaning that he has no idea that his friend stumbled into it and will drag him to it next week. Okay that probably doesn’t seem like an accident either so I’ll let go of that. The point I was making is that I love these unexpected life encounters. I just love the idea of not knowing, no matter how hard we try to know, something unexpected can always come along and change the course of our lives.

Oedipus el Rey is the production I’m talking about and I happened to bump into a co-worker outside of the theatre before it began. It turns out she had just received a phone call from her sister, who was supposed to meet her there, and she was stuck in Sacramento, I have no idea what she was doing there. Anyway, my co-worker grabbed me and asked if I wanted to see a free show. I had nothing else to do so accepted the invitation. I really had no expectations, to be honest I’d heard of Oedipus, but never read it.

Of course this production had little to do, other than thematically, and it was in modern California. The story takes place along the coast from the Golden Gate Bridge to the edge of Los Angeles. It really was an incredible production. After the show we were both so fascinated and still involved that we decided to stop somewhere and talk about it. We walked into the lounge of one of the old San Francisco hotels and had a glass of wine and a great conversation.