From the Director
Just the other day I sat the cast down to give notes, a normal thing a director does with her cast. And I was reminded how brave these young people are. I say that because being in a play truly is one of the most terrifying things a person can be a part of. Putting oneself in front of a giant crowd of people, who will immediately judge you, even those who enter with the best of intentions, will compare you to other productions, or not like a choice you made because of their preconceived notions of how “it should be done,” is terrifying! No where else do we willinging allow that type of scrutiny. But in the theatre, we willingly expose our hearts, we bare our souls, we laugh we cry and we, with every fiber of our beings hold a mirror up to our natures; we tell stories that sometimes speak to our very soul and put it on stage for everyone to see.
I couldn’t be more proud of the willingness of these students to show the world everything that they are and everything that they will become. It gives me hope. It makes me wake up every morning to come to work. It makes me stay late every night! These young adults give me hope...
And that is truly what starts the play of Oklahoma. Curly sings that ‘there is a bright golden haze on the meadow’ and that hope carries each character to the end of the play. It doesn’t come without flaws, it doesn’t come without obstacles, it doesn’t even come without great risk. But in the end, just like the closing of every performance, it is the greatest risk anyone could make.
Thank you all for being here.
Ms Kirstin Daniel
I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it ~Shakespeare
