{"id":9,"date":"2008-06-20T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-06-20T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T19:08:46","slug":"the-island-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/the-island-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The island effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I come to Washington Island something insane happens back in Chicago. Last time, the paper<\/a>\u00a0where I had (mostly) happily worked for years got sold–an event that led, in due time, to me not having a job and, ultimately, to winding up back on Washington Island this summer. This time, the play<\/a> I’ve been working on all spring (and, actually, much of last spring as well), which has been chugging along in a long and respectable, if not wildly financially renumerative run that began in early April, has suddenly, surprisingly, astonishingly been tapped by some New Yorker producer-types. Long story, short: we were planning on closing the show forever June 29; now it looks like we’re gonna pack up the truck and reopen at the Barrow Street Theatre<\/a> in the West Village on July 9.<\/p>\n

It’s all very exciting, and a little crazymaking–if less so for me since unlike the actors I’m not looking at an entire summer of unanticipated Brooklyn couch-surfing; I’ll only be there a week or so to get the show up and running. But, still. This all went down as I was maniacally crossing things off my list, finding my cat a glamorous South Loop summer home, getting the car fixed, stocking up on decent wine, cleaning the house (maybe I skipped that part), and staying up till five in the morning more nights than I should probably admit (hi, mom).<\/p>\n

Now I’m here, in the land of limited internet and skittish cell service, trying to make travel plans. The most reliable wi-fi spot on the island is the public library, the hours of which are themselves a little erratic–Mon\/Wed\/Fri in the afternoon; Tue\/Thu in the am for about four hours a pop each day. Luckily the signal carries to the parking lot, fast becoming my favorite place on this hunk of rock. On any given evening you can find a half-dozen islanders, teenagers and old-timers alike, sprawled on the grass or the hoods of their cars–or just hunkered down in the cab of the pickup, the only light a telltale blue glow bouncing off their chins–all seeking to reach out and touch the rest of the world. Or at least figure out if Southwest flies to LaGuardia.<\/p>\n

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Every time I come to Washington Island something insane happens back in Chicago. Last time, the paper\u00a0where I had (mostly) happily worked for years got sold–an event that led, in due time, to me not having a job and, ultimately, to winding up back on Washington Island this summer. This time, the play I’ve been … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[7,312],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-washington-island","tag-the-strangerer","tag-washington-island"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marthabayne.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}