We moved into the comfortable back seating area at Menz Bar – including the new Music Room – for this November Café. This was a change from the main bar space: more private and more like Mollyz Diner, our original Café venue in 2007. Our Berlin cast (Kristi Anderson, Zach Faye, Keelin Jack, Andrew "Droodles" Chandler, Amy Reitsma, Kim Parkhill and Garry Williams) was reunited, and reprised performances from the past three months, adding some new ones, and rediscovering some old ones.
A highlight for me was declaiming Shakespeare's "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments…" for a rapt table of six, dressed in my Pride '08 T-shirt, a pink tie and a rainbow triangle pin. The words had such weight, as well they should, in this unexpected new context. "Love is not love/That alters when it alteration finds,/Or bends with the remover to remove…"
That is why I love Café: the joy of play, the constantly unfolding possibilities.
