From the King (Blog #8)October 16th 2007 |
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POGUE HAMLET BLOG #8
October 16, 2007
Adam’s latest blog, I think, expresses the private fears, anxieties, frustrations, and exhaustions of us all. But I’m very proud of this company. We’ve all held it together and each of us tries to do what he or she can to facilitate the needs of the other through this tense and crucial period. At least to my ear, there has been no backstage back-biting, no bitching, no blows-up. We all have our own personal frets, but we are all focused on the whole and committed to doing what is needed to achieve it.
And what I admire most is our collective ambition. For a theatre striving to become a fully professional theatre, this is the kind of ambition it needs. We haven’t settled for something easy or compromised. We’re daring to reach further than we have before, perhaps even beyond our grasp…and that should be the way of things in professional theatre…to reach beyond itself, to risk failure, to be dangerous, to boldly work in the heady ethers of artistic heights without a net.
By my bathroom sink, I have a stone flower vase my wife Julieanne gave me. It is engraved with the word “CREATE”. The vase is surrounded by a collection of smaller engraved stones that to me represent the qualities needed for this act of creation.…They are my touchstones and I think they are the touchstones of this production…The words on the stones are: LOVE, RISK, COURAGE, PASSION. However this production fares, our company is imbued with an abundance of those four traits.
More anon.
Charles Edward Pogue
“Claudius”
Mr. Pogue appears courtesy of Actor's Equity Association
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