My favorite place in a theater is not the stage. My favorite place in a theater is the door to the stage. Entrance doors to the stage are portholes to belief, pathways to poetic truth. It is the place of change, the place where the beginning of the truth happens. It is the threshold of magic.
Waiting to make an entrance, at the stage door--I can see the lights and hear the dialogue of the story; I can listen intently for the cue that will pull me out, like an eight-year old marking a schoolyard jump rope ...but as I wait, I am physically in the place that is unseen, the place that includes placed props, exposed, unpainted set flats, used water cups, duct-taped wires.
I am charged with feeling as I wait--listening to the charging train that is the action of the play. As the cue gets closer, I get pumped with passion and my heart beats faster. Not with fear, but with anticipation. In that electric, stage-door, sacred place, I am the most powerful. I am the most vulnerable. I am the most real.
I review my entrance line in my head--just the entrance line--then I hear my cue, and go--through the stage door--into the kinetic power of the play.
-clg
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That was great Christin, thank you!
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