Patience

I have been out of theater on a regular basis for too long. I have lost my virtue of being a patient person. At Zoellner Arts Center we were a machine, typically on schedule or ahead of schedule, typically not wasting our own precious time, (sometimes other people wasted our time), typically doing a great job the first time around. I remember in the theater department student designers spending hours and hours tweaking and changing things but that was never me. I run on time or early for everything (sometimes a little late with non important things because of a little munchkin named Talyah) but if it is just me I am always ready. I am in tech right now for a show in Portland called Slap That Bitch and I am trying to remind myself that theater is a collaborative art and not everyone runs on time like me. I am not saying that it is a bad thing, its just a thing that I have to get over. I had my plot in on time, hung in 5 hours, focused in 6, cued in an hour and now we are in tech. I spent 10 precious hours at the theater yesterday for a dry tech and 7 of those were cue-to-cue times rolling lights, video and sound together, the other 3 were me reminding myself to be patient. The set is almost finished, the sound cues are almost right, the video images are almost there and the lights look good on the set...today we include a whole bunch of actors and I will have to remind myself once again that art takes time and patience is the key.

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