"My House Was Collapsing Toward One Side"

Hello readers,

Happy Sunday! We just finished our first intense Sunday cleaning of the session and my-oh-my does it feel nice to have a clean cabin!

I wanted to let you all know that Friday night was our script-in-hand reading, "My House Was Collapsing Toward One Side," a post-modern play by Charles Mee. I know that I'm partial to the cast (I did direct it, after all!), but the show was, in a word, incredible. The play, which is quite conceptual and non-concrete, is loosely based off of memoirs of Hiroshima survivors, broken up into small monologues and dialogues. The actors performed with "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber playing in the background and it set an atmosphere that I had not yet seen in the Ballibay Theater once this session. It truly was a moving piece of theater. As a director, I felt proud of the entire cast, and especially for a few performers who had never been in a play before...ever.

After the show was over, one of the cast members, Kayla H., came up to me and said, "I've never had an appreciation for theater before. Thank you for helping me 'get' it." All I could say in response was, "Thank you, Kayla."

More soon,

Elizabeth C.

Ballibay Blogger