So we have come to the end of tech and the anxiety has started to settle for some, or sit like a rock in the pits of their stomachs for others. But at the day’s end, we all can’t help but look around and laugh at how gross we all look dripping in sweat or how goofy we actors look in our white faces and bald head. “Dolls,” one person refers to us as, running around, playing, cracking jokes (and farts), having sips of tea hoping that our energy will cut through the rough tension that tech can sometimes bring upon a cast and crew.

After a long day of tech, I am amazed by the cool, calm, and glowing feeling that the stage gives off when it is there with all the screens shut, as the lights are hitting them from backstage; so enticing. After all the struggles with moving boxes and tight shoes and figuring out who can turn off the tank light now? Watching those glowing screens makes me think, how about another go at it?

And so we will; with previews around the corner, I feel this team enabling and readying itself for cracking. Not emotionally, but more like when our tomato-chicken tries to break through its shell, ready to jump out full of life and energy, ready for all to watch and marvel.

-Brandon