Kinky fun and Riots in NYC???

Going to the big apple, is always a blast; however, this trip seemed almost a little too much blast for my liking. It started out with a nice bus ride to the city, then a fabulous and informative tour of Lincoln Center, New york's public library for performing arts, and more! After that we saw our first show, Other Desert Cities. This show blew my mind away, and besides the questionable stage, arena setup, and besides the fact that you could see stage crew since there was no curtain, all in all the show was heart-renchingly fantastic. Each character had a purpose and like my friend had mentioned to me, "it is like every jesture they do, has a purpose". It was just a thrilling experience filled with anger, love, misunderstanding, and appreciation for the show, the actors themselves, and the characters they fulfilled. After that we saw Venus in Fur, a raunchy, comedic, drama, that made you not want to blink, from fear of missing something funny or imortant. It really was the perfect play to keep the audience in tact with the storyline. With constant awkwardly, yet perfectly performed, sexual scenes and a nice twist at the end, this show would have kept audiences dazzeled with amazement. However there still is a philosophical question towards this play in particular, was it all a dream, or did the plot actually happen to the protagonist? So far everything was perfect, however outside of these marvelous performances, were tons of people protesting against wallstreet. Signs, people crawling on buildings, the works! It was as some would say frightful, yet still educational, to actually be in a place with such power of their version of 'freedom of speech' the real ,not just philosophical, question would be, do we even have freedom of speech?