Out at the fundraiser for Frank and friends' production of Eric Bogosian's Suburbia tonight. It was good fun with good people for a good script. I think GirlPosse.com does it justice when they say:

Suburbia is a great play, gritty, real, packed full of issues, and coated with fun. It addresses Third world poltics (Globalisation), racism, sexuality, AIDS, femmism, gun control, drugs, alcholism, depression/mental illness/youth suicide, sex, pornography, mateship, leaving home, art, and delivers a strong and powerfully positive message about the potential of the individual. I can't imagine another play ever so acurately capturing the void and confusing faced by todays youth as they drift out of school and into an uncertain future.

They had a raffle at the fundraiser. I won a prize, the "cheap date." That's a magnum of merlot and a box of condoms. Oh boy; just what I need.

All snark aside, I'm looking forward to the show. It's a great piece of writing and still pretty relevant if not quite as edgy as it was first produced. The party was fun; good to be back in that mix of folks. It makes me think that great things might be possible with community support. As they say in the commercials, "Where you at? The whole city behind us."