Happy Independence Day to one and all! No celebrations here, but I will partake in the French festivities 10 days from now. I woke up to a wonderful email offering me a volunteer post at the Festival Avignon!
The job came about through a combination of being in the right place at the right time and being relentlessly outgoing. Last year in Avignon I hatched the crazy idea of trying to bring a French play to perform in Boston. At the time I spoke with a number of companies, an agent, one or two playwrights. After I got home I did a bunch more legwork to develop the idea, created an LLC for the venture, threw together a basic website www. One of the companies that pursued this idea with the farthest is named La Ruche Musicale , producers of the show Contretemps.
A couple days ago I sent an email reminding them of my plans to be in Avignon again this month and proposing we get together they are reprising Contretemps this summer at Avignon.
Absolutely made my day. So I expect to have interesting insights this year from the other side of the desk, and perhaps will get to do some socializing with one or more members of their company.
We will see. Last time I worked a retail counter was at Holy Cross College bookstore: it was a temp job I was able to do because they started a week or two before Harvard did, so I was available for their start-of-year rush. Starting from that high-point, the rest of the day here was OK. Michel Thierry Lhermitte , age 65, is a struggling hotel owner, grandfather, and widower in Bandol, 50 km southeast of Marseille.
