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Thu, 16 Apr 2009
In the last few days, I've been working pretty hard at making theater happen. If you haven't been following along, I'm designing lights and doing photography for Love's Tangled Web, at Annex Theatre. I'm also doing a ton of other little tasks, as always happens in fringe theater, but that's neither here nor there.
In a normal production, I'd expect to be doing the second full run tonight, the night before opening. I'd still be frantically chasing down problems in the lights, both the plot and cues. If I was a clever monkey, I would have taken the week off from work (I usually figure this out a few days before the week I should take off, which always makes me feel like a moron). I wouldn't be panicking, but I wouldn't be all that far from it. One of the reasons I've never written about this stuff before is that it's so overwhelming at the time that I simply don't have time to sit down and write about it.
As I've cleverly implied, I am not in that place of near-panic now. This show has gone amazingly well, all the way from the meet-n-greet until now. Things have happened on time or ahead of schedule. We're getting our 6th(!) full tech run tonight. People have been delightful to work with. There have been no big clashes of ego, and no disasters, whether ego-induced or not. My employer even declared a week of vacation (to get us to burn off vacation hours) this week, the perfect time for me to have a week off. We open tomorrow.
Thus it was that for the last few days, I've found myself walking out to get dinner at some reasonable hour, a feeling of contentment settled upon me like a cloak of finest ermine. All has, for quite a while now, been right with the world. It's a fantastic feeling.
Of course, I'm still busy as hell, but I'm not freaking out. Nothing feels like it has to be rushed. It's all just... ok.
Oh, and I suppose I can't tease you about photographs without offering up some evidence of the photographic goodness. Click on the below picture for a gallery of photos that we're sending out to press, and feel free to share them yourself:
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Posted at 16:56 permanent link category: /theater
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater