{"id":20571,"date":"2021-07-16T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:41:41","slug":"pozzo-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/07\/16\/pozzo-opening-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Pozzo Diaries: Opening Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Godot<\/cite> opens tonight, and this morning I am mostly excited about this being the last morning of opening the library at 7:30 after a late rehearsal the night before. That\u2019s not technically true; we will have a pickup on Thursday, but it should go fairly quickly, and I may be home at a reasonable hour. I had been thinking, as I was dragging myself in to work this week, that I seem to have aged a lot in the two years since I was last in tech week, but then remembered that my last tech week I was dragging myself to work at 9am, not 7:30. That makes a difference, too.\r\n

And then, we\u2019re not actually having much fun, which is an energy drain. Oh, it\u2019s not miserable, but since our Emergency Backup Gogo<\/a> has to concentrate on getting through the script\u2014understandably, since it\u2019s a brutal part to memorize anyway and he\u2019s only had three weeks\u2014it has been a grind. Last night was in fact the first time we did it without calling for lines, and there were evidently a couple of absolutely brutal stretches where they went up and had no idea how to skip to whatever is next. On the other hand, they have got through it once\u2014I imagine that anyone watching would have totally known that something was wrong, but not necessarily missed the stuff that was cut. Now they presumably know it can be done, and have (I hope) some ideas of where to jump to if they go up.\r\n

It\u2019s possible that a more experienced Director would have used more rehearsal time on that. Our Director is youngish and hasn\u2019t been doing this all his life; our Gogo was actually the theater teacher in his high school but he wasn\u2019t involved in the stuff back then. Or maybe it\u2019s not experience at all; maybe it\u2019s just that with such limited rehearsal time the best of all possible inferior choices was to just run the thing as often as we could run it, and hope for the best.\r\n

Recently, someone demurred when I referred to myself as an amateur actor, intending (I\u2019m sure) to compliment me that I was good at this acting stuff. I don\u2019t think of being an amateur as being the opposite of being good, though. It\u2019s something else entirely\u2014for all of us in community theaters, the play we\u2019re involved in at the moment is not going to pay our rent, it isn\u2019t going to further our careers, it isn\u2019t going to be our big breaks. Most of us work forty-hour weeks at some non-theater job in addition to rehearsing or building sets or hanging lights or writing grant proposals or sweeping floors (or sometimes doing all of those things). We do this for ourselves, and for each other, and for the audiences, and in some sort of sentimental bullshit way we do it for The Theater.\r\n

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I>
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