“Still Crazy After All These Years…”
We caught a matinee of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls this past Saturday at the Biltmore Theatre. (I had seen her play Blue Heart in London in 1997.) It was really well done, and even though much of the play was sad, there were many light moments and reaffirmations of life.
One of those moments happened on line at the ladies’ room during the second intermission. Sitting only a row behind me was a young woman I had gone to high school with, we sang in chorus class together.
We exchanged the obligatory “How have you been?” and “What are you up to?” When I told her I’m a playwright, she said, “Oh, then this must be boring for you…”
I said, “No, it’s fun!”
She said, “Yeah, but this is what you do… You’ve already seen this all before.”
And I said, “No, it’s still fun!”
I walked away laughing to myself… I’m lucky to be doing what I love doing… and even if I’ve been doing it for a while, and sometimes it’s hard, it’s still wonderful… How could I keep at it so long if I didn’t love it?
But then I realized, not everyone is so fortunate to do what they love. Not everyone is so fortunate to know what they want to devote their lives to… and actually DO it.
To borrow a Paul Simon lyric, I’m “still crazy after all these years” about theatre, and I hope that’s how I’ll always feel.
–Sue
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