The play has been cast, with the usual array of ecstasy and heartbreak.
Auditions last week comprised both improv exercises and readings from the script. Before we began, I told the middle schoolers this story. Once I auditioned for a play and was bitterly disappointed to receive a secondary role. It was a good part, but not the one I wanted. I was so angry that, for the only time in my life up to that point, I nearly declined the play altogether. In the end, I accepted the role.
The show was a disaster. It was a highly anticipated production that won an award from our college newspaper for the biggest build-up with the worst payoff. The director grew up to be an aerobics instructor.
However, I've never regretted taking that role in that play, because that's how I met my wife Abby.
That story probably didn't resonate with fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders, but I like it.
Our first read-through of Gilgamesh will occur during the school day on this Wednesday, October 10. Be sure to ask your kids about it when they come home.
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