More Theatre Musings.
12 March 2003-12:07 p.m.
Alyssa asked me to write about our wonderful weekend, and I will, but right now I can't. Things are going on that keep my mind from it. I wrote about it a little in my last entry. The problem has since gotten bigger. I look at the mess and I think, "what could have been done differently?" and I can't think of anything. Egos are very complex things. They drive so much of what we do. They cause so many of our problems. The director's ego, member’s egos, the board's egos. The director quit. Our president has agreed to take over. This would be fine, not what I would have wished, but okay, except our president has spring planting to do, and may loose "a couple thousand dollars" *sigh* I hate that. He's also a friend. I offered to help plant. It's all I can do.
I hear rumblings of anti-director/pro-director and I hate that too. I think this is a man who has done a lot for our theatre. I think loosing him is a horrible thing. But we never asked him to leave. We never, ever intended that to be the outcome. This hurts. And his leaving may mean another person, whom I consider a friend, and an important contributor, may leave us also. I would hate for her to do that. I have this need to fix things, and right now it's screaming at me because I can't. I look at the mess and I can only turn around and call wig stores, and worry about my own show. This blew up so fast that I'm not even sure how it got to this point. People have been grumbling about the board, but I don't know what we should have done differently. I get the horrible feeling that a large part of this fiasco was caused by a lack of communication somewhere. I do know that I have never been so angry with myself for missing a meeting. That'll teach me.