the bathhouse...
Aug. 13th, 2007 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pipistrellafelixI don't have much to say about Saturday night--I think most of it was said already, & better. But I am insanely proud of all the new alumni, the Writer kids (not so much kids anymore, not anymore than I am); that show was indescribably incredible, & beautiful way to send you all off to your next adventure. & like Patrick, I'm proud of where the senior show went after we & Philip & Allie began it--who would have thought that three years later they'd be getting commissions?
Earlier that day my parents got upset at me for not being around, or not seeing enough of them before I leave (planning helps, is all I have to say). I gave them my Bathhouse schedule, which is the only pre-planned lock on my time, & they said, My, you're doing a lot of work there for free. Well...yeah, I said, nonplussed.
Even though I think of that occasionally, I never really think about it, not as a problem or as something I would stop doing. I mean, I wouldn't mind getting paid to work there, but the only thing that would accomplish would be to allow me to not find another job. It wouldn't give me any extra validation, or sense of worth; that, I get all on my own. That's what I give back. The last six years of my life, since The Tempest way back when, have revolved in some degree around the Bathhouse. I have done theater elsewhere, & enjoyed it immensely; I will continue to do theater elsewhere. There may be long stretches of time, as I grow up, that I won't do theater at the Bathhouse. But it will be always be for me where theater was born, regardless of the fact that I had done it before. It will be, as Frances put it, the ideal of theater, the way theater ought to be, the way theater should be; what other youth programs wish they could be.
Earlier that day my parents got upset at me for not being around, or not seeing enough of them before I leave (planning helps, is all I have to say). I gave them my Bathhouse schedule, which is the only pre-planned lock on my time, & they said, My, you're doing a lot of work there for free. Well...yeah, I said, nonplussed.
Even though I think of that occasionally, I never really think about it, not as a problem or as something I would stop doing. I mean, I wouldn't mind getting paid to work there, but the only thing that would accomplish would be to allow me to not find another job. It wouldn't give me any extra validation, or sense of worth; that, I get all on my own. That's what I give back. The last six years of my life, since The Tempest way back when, have revolved in some degree around the Bathhouse. I have done theater elsewhere, & enjoyed it immensely; I will continue to do theater elsewhere. There may be long stretches of time, as I grow up, that I won't do theater at the Bathhouse. But it will be always be for me where theater was born, regardless of the fact that I had done it before. It will be, as Frances put it, the ideal of theater, the way theater ought to be, the way theater should be; what other youth programs wish they could be.
