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August 19, 2011

Dear Students:

I hope all is well with you and that you are adjusting to the new semester. Enjoy you weekend!

My own work continues apace with meetings here at the hotel with the lighting designer and a young director, both of whom are helping me mount the production of __Sacrifice__ in Kolkata. Cathy Parrott, my costume designer who just came off of a film with Spike Lee, is busy with fittings and making adjustments in the work of tailors who were sewing well into last night in preparation for other fittings this morning as actors walk off the plane after long flights from New Jersey and elsewhere in the world. I wonder what you would think of the fact that the board room of this hotel is now being used as a temporary costume show; and, the sewing machine we are using looks like a survivor of WWII? The Hotel's Chinese Restaurant "Jimmy" provides the sustenance we all needed to get thru the grueling ordeal last night. It is 5am and we will shortly be resuming the routine of fitting, sewing, and altering garments as our dress rehearsal fast approaches.

In any case, please know that I'm thinking of you and wishing you well, as you finish this first week of classes.

Best.

Farley