The Importance Of Theatre In My Life

This past year has been the most monumental for me as a growing individual, and my family has been faced with challenges that threatened to destroy the delicate structure we created for ourselves. I can say, with overwhelming confidence, that theatre is the medicine that keeps up alive and well in these troubling times. During the fall of my tenth grade year, I made the decision to move from my mother and stepfather’s apartment, which also was home to my younger brother, Larry. This decision was a haste one in that it was made on the night my stepfather choked me to the ground, and I will never forget how terrified I was to stay there with him. It was hard to leave my brother, but I didn’t want to coerce him into making a choice between his

I was able to put everything that happened in those years into a part of myself that practices discipline and love for this art form. Theatre will be the beacon of hope that saves the masses from personal destruction, depredation, and dismal, because it requires everyone involved to access its power through the soul. It beckons such a strong reaction, because theatre is based on the interaction of people, and humans interact with each other in every single way possible, which makes for a communication tool beyond compare. This is the reason I have kept it in my life, because, unlike every other experience, my experience in theatre has always led to self-discovery. Every time I leave the stage I know I have touched someone in some way, whether lightly or heavily, thus expanding my emotional capacity as a person. Seeing people’s lives played out on stage makes one put his or her own in perspective, and this type of self reflection is what will truly make the world progress into the place I believe it needs to go. My goal is to reach entire communities with the arts, and the greatest obstacle the world faces is that of