A tempest. Flying. An exploding frog. Dancing monkeys. A fire breathing eagle monster. This is just some of what you can expect from Aesop and Icarus, our new play playing December 5th, 6th, and 7th at the UIC Theatre. These are some of the challenges I face as I work to stage the play. How does one show water onstage? Undulating fabric? No! Boring, overdone. Challenge, push beyond the convention. Create new vocabularies. Balloons maybe? Hmmm. That could be interesting. I can’t wait to get the actors into the rehearsal room. Six heads are so much better than one. I can’t wait to begin to improvise and explore with them. How many people get to come to work and their assignment for the day “Today, we are going to fly. We are going to find a way to fly.”