Impressed...
People impress me. I work with many talented people at Scarborough Faire. These people are both experienced actors and novices who want to learn to play in a 10 hour a day interactive theater. This is not the easy for a person who may consider them selves shy. Each year dozens of these people volunteer to try.
These people take 7 weeks of rehearsal and classes before the faire even starts. The 7 weeks is hard. In the 7 weekends they will attend 24 hours of class and around 40 of rehearsal. Many of them get frustrated, cry and quite. But every year many, many of them have seer moments of brilliants.
As a teacher I get to see a lot of these moment. They make me smile, laugh, and every year want to come back and work hard to be worthy of the honor of teaching them. Every year I forget how hard these people work. Then these people remind me.
This year I am a head instructor for one of these classes. Four instructors work with me to teach ~130 students a day how to act in a 10 hour play without a script. These instructors were at first worried that they are not talented enough to teach a subject like this. Their talent has overwhelmed the challenge of teaching this subject. As instructors they have each thought me a great deal about an art I have thought to others years.
The master has become then student…