FLU SEASON in San Francisco (doesn't feel like Flu Season at all)

In the first week of rehearsals for Will Eno's Flu Season at ACT and having a spectacular time. I love this play (it's very hard! it's funny! it's heartbreaking!) and the whole ACT team has been phenomenal. Great actors. Wonderful designers. A beautiful rehearsal studio... and the hotel suite I'm staying in has a view of the Bay. It's pretty dreamy.
We're still at the table and enjoying heady, philosophical conversations about parallels to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and other loci of metaphysical/meta-theatrical thinking. I had the pleasure of getting to know Will a little bit before leaving NY to come out west and since there is a 'playwright' in this play (embodied by the characters named Prologue and Epilogue who do their best to compose and re-compose the narrative)-- I feel a little bit like a private eye searching the text and the man for clues. I often feel like that when I'm working on a play, (or reading a novel or a poem or watching a movie I guess), but it's heightened because of the explicit 'force' of the playwright in this play. Also, I have never met/gotten to know a playwright at the same time I was getting to know their words so closely. It's interesting. I like it.
[Thom Paine is one of my all-time favorite plays. I carried the library copy around with me so much in April of 2008 I had to buy the LAPL a new one.]
Also, here is a link to some of the visual research I've pulled together for the play. I love pictures.