Up Past Bedtime on a Thursday Night

Last night, I got together with three very good friends of mine -- Cara (my best friend who I've known since high school), Katryn (who I've done theatre with around here for the past seven or so years), and John (who was my best buddy in college and probably the best guy friend I have and will ever have.) We're doing a public reading of a new play of mine called "Providence" in advance of a production we're doing this summer. And we got together to rehearse.

What a terrific time I'm having. I spend most of my creative time these days working with my students. And while that's always a fulfilling thing, getting the chance to sit in a room with three terrific actors that I know and trust and just dig into a script and experiment and play --- it's just freakin' phenomenal. I'd forgotten how much fun it could be to work on a scene with someone who loves the process of making theatre as much as I do.

And it's the first time that John and I have acted together since our first show in college. So it's great fun.

Isn't it nice to rediscover what originally attracted you to an art form? Once you get in the muck, and it really becomes "a job," you can forget the thing that made it seem incredible and magical in the first place.

It felt like college all over again. Fun night.