The Joys of a theatre free life
As much as I love doing theatre and being in shows, there are a ton of advantages to not being in a show at all. I record this here to both inform and entertain my readers, but equally so to remind myself the next time I decide it is a good idea to do shows back to back right after making a sort of significant life change like buying a house. In no particular order, some of the advantages are as follows:
- My body has time to heal. I tend to be fairly hard on my body when doing shows. This includes both not stopping to be sick and throwing my body around with reckless abandon. Almost all shows that I have a significant role in, I end up bruised and aching. It’s nice to heal.
- Sleep: it’s kind of cool and I enjoy it.
- Home cooked dinner at the table with my wife. Somewhere along the way, having fast food 8 times a week stopped being the ideal way to eat. Now that we aren’t at the theatre every night, not only do we have time to get groceries, but we get to eat in our house instead of in the car on the way to the theatre.
- Who knew it was possible to go out and do fun thing or even do chores on random nights of the week?
- At no point do I ever find myself in bed/shower/work trying to peel mic tape off of my neck.
- It is actually possible to get a tan when I am not inside a a dark theatre every weekend.