So You Want to Make Your Living in the Theater

Music: Prelude in G minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich.  Sequenced by J. Marques.

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So you want to make your living in the theater … Easier to burn without oil for eight days! The point of Hanukkah is that God has his ways. However … And what kind of miracle are you looking for, anyway? No miracle is going to give you back your life: Days of dreams, days and nights of despair, years and years           and years of hope … Living at the heart of creation; Of all the dry movement, flakes of dead talk, Retakes, rituals, favors for the files, Rendering one perfect, sparkling scream … A miracle takes a lot of rehearsal. In between, one works and wonders, wonders and counts the days. Nodding from exhaustion, one says yes, yes, yes, Even this, yes, even this …