Scottish Field: I start work around 9.30am, reading morning emails. I am not very good at eating lunch so it is straight through regardless of activity. If it is a technical rehearsal day, the days lengthen and I am often one of the last to leave the theatre at around 11pm. During these weeks, it is often back to work the next morning for 8.30am. There is no typical day.
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This is the reason I love theater! Everything is always changing and nothing is ever the same. It is what makes working in theater interesting. You never know what challenges are gonna present themselves or what kind of project you will work on next. Sometimes I get overwhelmed and think damn I would be really nice if I could just learn a skill and do it everyday. I wouldn't have to think about it so much and it would be easier. But then when I am in situations where that is true I get so restless and bored. When I was working at American Eagle folding clothes over and over for hours or checking customers out I hated my life. I was so bored because there was nothing keeping me engaged or interested. I need new things to focus on. Theatre still has structure which limits my stress but it is always changing and that's what keeps it interesting and worthwhile.
This is why theater is so cool and amazing to me. It is truly an art form, theater is about the creation of worlds, it takes plays and musicals and crafts a world that the characters interact with. It is whimsical and kind of fun to create these worlds. The idea is that every day you go to work as a brain-producing piece of this made-up world. It is almost like a puzzle inside your own head. The idea that ‘no two days are the same,’ makes me very excited, this causes creative minds to blossom. It also pushes you out of the box consistently. I would like to live a life like this, but I would with art and not theater. I respect theater and think it is awesome sometimes, but art can be so many things, something more undefined which I find interesting. I don’t understand how some people can basically live in groundhog day!
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