Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker, at Georgetown U's new Davis Center for the Performing Arts

We don't see a lot of student productions, but a friend teaches in the Theater department at Georgetown, so we went to see the second-ever performance at the new Davis Center (the first performance was last night). The play is historical, involving a play produced by convicts sent to Australia in the 1780s. It's a very intellectual play, and a play about the theater (and what the theater can do). A play worth seeing, and a production worth seeing, if you can make it to GU by next Saturday.

We got a tour after the show of the new facility. Really great, state-of-the-teaching-art. It's great to see a university devoting resources to a field of endeavor that won't yield any patents. The arts are what make us human, people. Really.

Of course, if you patent the human genome . . . then you might make humans, too.

Btw, I tempted superstition tonight by uttering the word Macbeth in the theater. It's a long story (why I did it and why that's bad luck), but let's just say, I don't believe in evil spirits. But if bad luck comes my way, I have a ready-made explanation.