All posts tagged: Stayed

My Fiancée Stayed With Me After I Was In A Coma

My Fiancée Stayed With Me After I Was In A Coma

Published by Sam Flores

I asked her to marry me at 17. One month later, a speeding Lexus struck me off a skateboard outside my parents’ driveway in Columbus, Indiana. I woke up from a three-week coma not knowing who she was. Courtesy of Cameron Michael Fathauer The author in a coma at IU Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, with Chelsea at his bedside. She had been there every day. That’s not a figure of speech. I mean literally. The person I had just asked to spend her life with me stood at my bedside in the ICU at IU Methodist, and I looked at her the way you look at a stranger. She had to be introduced to me. We had been together for two years. She knew things about me I had lost. I had to be told her name. I think about that moment more than any other moment in my life. Not as a tragedy – as something else I still don’t have a word for. Courtesy of Cameron Michael Fathauer The author and Chelsea during …

Avenue Q review – A Gen-X time capsule that should have stayed buried

Avenue Q review – A Gen-X time capsule that should have stayed buried

Published by Daniella Wilson

Think back to the turn of the century. Political correctness had “gone mad”, so it was said, and the cutting edge of comedy was a battleground for the busting of new taboos. Gen-Xers, weaned on the ironic, pop-culture-literature nectar of The Simpsons, were making their own stabs at transgression. It was an era that gave us Family Guy, South Park, and, on stage, Avenue Q, a musical that dared to ask the all-important question: what if the puppets in Sesame Street were all professionally listless, sexually active young adults? Audiences, cynical and pop-culturally savvy themselves, ate it up. Avenue Q beat fledgling box office behemoth Wicked to the big Tony Award win that year, a victory for the snarky contrarian. But that was then, and this is now. Twenty-three years have passed since Avenue Q premiered (in its initial incarnation, off-Broadway), and 16 since its West End run came to an end. Now it’s back, revived at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre. The world has changed, and Avenue Q has not. Bar the odd modified line – …