Squinting Off to the New World

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Matinees suck!

Last Friday and today we had matinee performances of just Act I at 9:30 am for school kids bussed in from Dare County Schools.

They’ve tried this before, and you would think they would remember what happens.

It sounds good – bus in school kids to see The Lost Colony! Share our local treasure with the schools! Show how involved we are with the community! Expose the children to some live theater!

Take a few hundred kids and sit them in the hot summer sun…

Last year they fried the kid’s brains so bad that at intermission they were handing out free water from concessions and kids were throwing up and suffering from heat stroke and ambulances were called.

That’s why this year they decided to just do Act I. Friday morning was not-so-hot with a nice breeze. Today was a scorcher. By Plymouth you could see the kids were bright red-faced and sweating. We finished just in time.

As for the company – the ATs came in and set up starting at 7:30, the rest of us wandered in at about 8:30. We waited till the last minute to get into costume. Capes, helmets, heavy cloaks, extra petticoats etc. were cut.

We have a new pace – Matinee Pace. Go really fast because the kids aren’t very interested and not even the teachers know what a “diadem” is.

Louis (Old Tom) had a pre-existing conflict so his understudy Joe Mallon went on and did great!
By the end of Plymouth the sun was high and we all went squinting off to the New World.

Indians warm up before the matinee.