Four years gone…
02/27/23 12:00
…And I am back again. Well, was.
A whole lot has changed since I was last "properly" onstage. I had a stroke (yay!) which put me mostly out of commission for a year. Then, just as I was about to get back in the saddle, in March off 2020, SOMETHING happened that put the kibosh on that. The last three years have seen, if not the destruction of Boston-area theater, at the very least a HUGE struggle for it to stay viably afloat, to the point where even some institutions I thought would never go away in my lifetime, are in the process of dissolving…
All that is not to say I've done NOTHING creative in the past four years. Performances with the Post-Meridian Radio Players, unusual gigs for History Alive!, a last-minute call-up for a filmed staging of Phoebe Roberts's Gentlemen Never Tell, as well as other projects in the works, and occasional pecking at my own middling efforts (though nothing to show for it at present).
But this was the first time, in over four years, that I felt fully back onstage. It felt good. Not floods of tears, oh-my-God-I-missed-you-so-muhuhuuuuuch good, but it did feel...right. Here's hoping it's not another four years before I make it back in front of people again.
A whole lot has changed since I was last "properly" onstage. I had a stroke (yay!) which put me mostly out of commission for a year. Then, just as I was about to get back in the saddle, in March off 2020, SOMETHING happened that put the kibosh on that. The last three years have seen, if not the destruction of Boston-area theater, at the very least a HUGE struggle for it to stay viably afloat, to the point where even some institutions I thought would never go away in my lifetime, are in the process of dissolving…
All that is not to say I've done NOTHING creative in the past four years. Performances with the Post-Meridian Radio Players, unusual gigs for History Alive!, a last-minute call-up for a filmed staging of Phoebe Roberts's Gentlemen Never Tell, as well as other projects in the works, and occasional pecking at my own middling efforts (though nothing to show for it at present).
But this was the first time, in over four years, that I felt fully back onstage. It felt good. Not floods of tears, oh-my-God-I-missed-you-so-muhuhuuuuuch good, but it did feel...right. Here's hoping it's not another four years before I make it back in front of people again.