Hey Passage People!

Our 10th annual Solo Flights Festival is here!  Now, I've only been here for four of them, but I'm pretty seriously jazzed about this year.  Am I biased?  Well...sure!  But not in the way you might think.

Yeah, I'm a little bit jaded when it comes to quality storytelling.  I tend to be more Clint-Eastwood-in-Dirty-Harry than Reese-Witherspoon-in-Legally-Blonde by nature.  What's so undeniably refreshing to me is when I see a bunch of artists who are telling stories well, in unique ways, and delighting in the telling.  When I see that, it makes me want to wear pink and dance around with the fabulousness of it all (if I'm not in the box office.)

So here's why SF 2011 is uber-cool for me:

• It's perhaps the most eclectic bunch of stories and artists we've had to date....
• We've got music of the highest caliber in Lincoln Center's Terry Waldo (now joined by Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton!) and Barrymore winner Mary Martello...
• We've got smart AND incisive comedy with Nancy Giles' Black Comedy: The Wacky Side of Racism, and well, really all the rest of the artists, too...
• We've got stranger-than-fiction true accounts of travels in foreign countries and the search for home in No Parole and Wanderlust...
• We've got beautiful, lyrical, genre-defying stories about remarkable personal strength and love in adversity in Draw the Circle and Forgive to Forget...
• There's a story here for everyone.  Period.

It takes a special kind of storytelling to excite me...and I'm stoked.  I hope I'll see you all at the theatre.  You might even catch me wearing pink.

-Kacy