It won't kick in until the following week, or the week after, but at some point I'll remember how this craft has socially and emotionally lobotomized performers to accept the complete disconnect for what can be very tight-knit community, in order to be ready to move on the the next one.
All that being said, this has truly been a unique and fun experience, and gave me an opportunity to play roles that have probably been the most challenging I've ever played, that of Black Girl in Gleam (a mashup of Glee & Scream) and Casey, a gay porn bottom, in TarXXXanadu...I don't think I need to explain that one.
And thus ended my premiere performance(s) with Landless Theatre Company, an organization I hope to work with more in the future.
In my ever ending quest to do work to get my non-theatre friends to come out and see live performances, I continue to make headway, although not as much as I would like.
And so I turn back to the eternal question that seems to stump me in most endeavors...how do you get people to care enough just to show up?
Yes, it's more of a rhetorical question, but if the friends that did make it out are any indicator, then I'm making progress. That's part of the reason I was really looking forward to working with Landless, because that's what they're about:
"Landless Theatre Company is committed to infusing vitality into the D.C. Arts by producing exciting and accessible alternative theatre to generate new and diverse audiences"
I love it!!
And so I go further down the DC performing arts rabbit hole :-)
- J Street Jr
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