Hell to Heaven in a day

Before I bore you to death with details of artistic strife, I will show lovely portraits of the artist teams from each country except for the U.S. team which you've seen plenty of already. Here are the Germans, from left to right: Kevin (opera singer), Jochen (composer), Esther (opera singer), Gunther (yes the one and only), and Frank (opera director).
The Belgium team -- Valery! One person, awesome video artist.
From Cameroon: Andray, Evelyn, and Valery.
Spain: Paloma & Sylvia -- who is an amazing actress.
From the Phillippines: Sai (dancer) and Ruell (musician)
So. I don;t know, an incredibly frustrating morning rehearsal -- discovering the limitations of the technology & video... and just dealing with the weird structure of this project in terms of decision-making... These "collaborations" with directors... like... may I quote one of my own plays and say, yes "theater is not a democracy" for sure, but also there are ways to organize in a way that still respects and encourages creativity, rather than suppressing such. The Europeans seem to conceptualize so much, they don't trust the real live on-the-feet solutions. It's a shame, actually...

Anyway, in the morning I thought I might murder someone or myself, and the afternoon was frustrating in certain ways as well, but in the evening we went out for the first time with the German opera singers, both 26 years old. We had a great lovely time at La Musa restaurant, which was actually some kind of weird Asian fusion place that served... venison. Ah, but before dinner, we went to a bar next door and had a drink. Everywhere, the red wine is delicious.

Juan holding what I thought might be a bagel but was not, I don't think...
Kevin the German opera singer, Juan, and Valery.
Kevin and Kevin the opera singer, when we were checking out the bathroom area. There was like a tunnel of bamboo curtains.
Venison.
on our way home we ran into two of the b-boys having a smoke, and then we crammed ourselves into the little elevator. Robert, who can do AMAZING things, and Liam, who can also do AMAZING things, and Valery, who is a stand-up comedian as well as an actor.
some moments i am like what the fuck am i doing here?? and other moments, i'm like (as Juan is practically ALL the time...) this is amazing and wonderful.
my shoulders hurt, i have bruises and wounds all over my feet and legs. another day tomorrow of artistic strife and the test of the human spirit. good night.