Theatre | The Guardian: On the first afternoon of rehearsals for any new show, I would ask Claire to push past the awkwardness and nerves of new beginnings with some group singing. Within a couple of hours, her galvanic energy and shining eyes would have a group of strangers harmonising together with a gusto they had not felt since childhood.
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I wonder why it is that death always brings people together and that while we are living, we never seem to appreciate the people closest to us. I’m listening to Claire van Kampen’s compositions right now and they are incredibly dynamic and reading this article makes me wonder if I will ever achieve even a smidgen of success that she and some of the other people in the industry have. In this day and age, it seems so hard to be able to stand out and to do good work or innovative work because of how saturated and hyper competitive the industry is. I guess only time will tell but it sure is scary. Obviously, I feel like as technical theatre people, we go into this world knowing that we will almost never gain the recognition and fame that our performer counterparts do and that is completely fine, but some part of me wonders if that will ever change and honestly, sometimes, I hope it does.
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