I haven’t produced or directed a play in over a year and I’m starting to go a little crazy. Granted, nothing drives me more nuts than actually producing or directing a play, but it’s a different kind of madness. One that I desperately miss.

But, as much as I’d like to, I can’t just go and impetuously throw my hat into the ring. There are too many variables to consider. The most important of which is the fact that I would have to give up a significant amount of my free time at the weekends – time that is currently dedicated to my family. I’ve spoken with Jan about this and she said that I could probably do it if I promised to delegate some of the meatier responsibilities to other people – a skill at which I am infamously bad. So I’m looking into it.

But there’s no time to look into it!!! I just realized today that, if I wanted to put up a play this spring, I would have to start rehearsing in March. To do that, I would have to hold auditions before we go to Florida on February 11. To do that, I would have to start spreading the word about the auditions at least a few weeks beforehand. And that would be next week.

In order to spread the word about my auditions, I usually post a classified ad in the Barcelona Metropolitan magazine – the best-known English-language magazine in Barcelona. I always get a good response when I place an ad there. But the magazine comes out towards the beginning of the month and, if I want to hold auditions on Feb 6th or 7th, it wouldn’t do me much good to have the ad go public on the 5th. So I was just about to give up and postpone everything until the fall when I received an email from… Barcelona Metropolitan!! They apparently have a new weekly newsletter that they’re trying to push. So I could definitely put an ad in there if I wanted. Now I just need to decide if sticking Jan with both kids for over four hours on every Saturday and Sunday for three months would be a very nice thing to do. Unfortunately, I think I already know the answer to that.