The 2010 New Year's concert at the Musikverein in Vienna. Photo: Lilli Strauss/Associated Press

The year 2010 was a happily productive and inspiring period for me: two theatrical presentations (Howard Barker at the Segal Center, which I curated and co-produced in May [a report on which will appear in an upcoming issue of Contemporary Theatre Review] and What She Knew); a lead article in the May issue of the Yale University Theater journal; a chapter in Karoline Gritzner’s Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance; a few other writings here and there — and, most importantly, the birth of my second daughter Billie Swift in March. This is quite a bit to be getting on with for twelve months; that I remain vertical at the end of it all is a wonder.

And of course Superfluities Redux, which barrels on after seven years and will celebrate its eighth anniversary in October 2011. Other projects are being developed as well — a full-length play inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre and a trio of smaller chamber pieces, as well as the January publication by EyeCorner Press of my first book, Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros and Contemporary Tragic Drama, not to mention future plans for What She Knew.

I will be taking a brief hiatus from this blog for the next few weeks to put the finishing touches on the book, and to recharge and regroup. In the meantime, I wish all Superfluities Redux readers a fine holiday and a brilliant 2011. I’ll see you all again on the other side of 1 January.