After “After the Afterglow”
Here we are at Raconteur, no longer basking in the afterglow of After the Afterglow, looking forward to our production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. And now that we’re looking forward, we’ve decided that it’s time to look back on our last production. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be putting up various reflections on people’s experiences with After the Afterglow, starting here with mine:
I was stunned by the entire experience. Starting a theatre company was both more exciting and difficult, and yet at the same time easier and more natural feeling, than I ever expected it to be. There was a lot of work that went into our front end, much of it stuff I never would have considered being a part of starting a company, but man did it pay off. We played to close to sold out crowds every night, and the responses we got from the audiences was better than I dared to hope.
The list of people to thank is longer than I could ever compile, since it includes not only Bread and Circus theatre and Madlab for giving us items to help put the show together, or Tricia’s church for giving us chairs to sit people in, or the different members of the board - all of whom did way more than anyone could ask them to do for the show, or the actors who performed brilliantly and never once complained about strange rehearsal schedules and locations. But it also includes every person who came to see the show, and every person who told their friend to come check us out.
It’s hard to remember the excitement that came with opening night now that we find ourselves starting fresh with Ghosts. But I know that come October I’ll look back at where we’re at now and say “Oh yeah, this is why we do it.”
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