I love my job! Creative Director of the Showcase Arts Foundation and Director of the Showcase Repertory Company – a dream come true.
Last night I sat in our little theater space watching everything we have all worked for come to fruition. It has been a little more than 3 years since I started this journey with the actors who stood on that stage last night. Some of them have been involved steadily from the get go, some , including my wife, came on slowly, even reluctantly. All of them have worked tirelessly to improve. All of them have taken workshops to the extreme, stretching their limits, letting go and learning, learning, learning.
The results are amazing.
I was brought to tears once again by actors who, not that long ago, were raw, unsure and unpolished. We are barely out of table readings on the play “Rabbit Hole” but already the sense that this will be the best thing we have ever brought to a stage is obvious. People need to see this play.
I have a personal connection to this play that everyone will, at some point in their lives, have with it as well. We have or will suffer grief. All of us! How do we deal with it? Can we let others deal with it in their own way or will we judge them? try to help them? try to force our way of dealing with it on them? or just let them be? Tough questions without easy answers.
I have read and directed a great many plays in my life. I will read a great many more and, hopefully get to direct many more amazing works. I doubt I will get to work with a play any much better written than this one and cast as perfectly.
Who knows? We have come so far and have raised the bar so high with this company. Who knows what else we will be able to do?
I, for one, am very excited to see into that future. What’s next? — Movies!