Why “The Antipodes”?

One of my alternate timeline dream jobs is travel writer. Who knows, maybe that can actually happen in the same timeline as actor/director/teacher/theater administrator. I keep telling myself I will start this blog, and right now I am sitting in a craft brewery in Flagstaff, Arizona, and what I have decided to do while I sit here is start it.

“The Antipodes” is Number 1. The exact opposite of something. Early modern people used the term to mean the opposite side of the world, where you would end up if you bored a hole through the globe, and a place that things were upside down and topsy- turvy; and Number 2. The title of one of my favorite plays, by Richard Brome, from 1640. In the play, the main character, Peregrine, has fallen into a depression from reading too much travel literature. In order to cure his wanderlust, his family and friends stage a performance in which they try to convince him that he has fallen asleep and awoken in the Antipodes.

Sometimes I travel by myself. Sometimes I travel with my husband, my mother, our dogs, my friends, on tour with shows. Here is where I will write about it. Come back.