The Accidental Brecht-a-thon

I've lately been in the uncomfortable position of writing a column called "Stage Matters," about North Coast theatre (for the North Coast Journal weekly) while also doing publicity for shows produced by Humboldt State University Department of Theatre, Film & Dance. These are freelance gigs which taken together, frankly don't add up to a minimum wage job, but they do require some tip-toeing around possible conflict of interests.

And neither of them legitimately affords me the panorama of opinion, based not on columnist or even reviewer point of view, but in my capacity as self-appointed armchair director and imaginary producer as well. How to reconcile all these?

By blogging, of course. So you may see the full range of my unsolicited views and off-center scholarship on the recent coincidental Bertolt Brecht festival at Blue Voice. For further background on Brecht and Mother Courage with useful links, there's the publicist produced Mother Courage at HSU blog.