Interview with a Theatre Major from Alabama

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Why did you choose? And w, uh, there's a lot of reasons. Um, I had gone to high school in Nebraska, and after I moved from Nebraska back to Alabama, I kind of decided that I missed a lot of Nebraska's features and things like that. Um, and so I looked into schools, uh, in the area, but I looked. I looked a lot more into the schools in the area, and I saw Wesley, and I was like, Why not? Um since a lot of my instructors recommended it. Uh, through that, I got to meet with some of the professors, and I met with a lot of the theatre directors. Just, Yes, Just just the wonderful theater, the environment. Everyone was so welcoming, and they just consistently reached out to be and tried to welcome me into us. It's very different from just kind of everybody else, because in the theater, it's such a tight knit group. It's like a family comes with its pluses and minuses of of being a very tight knit family. Outside of, um, outside of theater, I deal with a lot of people while working in the cafe. A lot of people, you know, you could just kind of tell, uh, how how they might act. Uh, but everyone seems so friendly and so welcoming. Um, and of course, there's a lot of times where people are stressed or or things like that But, uh, working in the cafe. A lot of people are very helpful and kind of reach out. I always see people like walking by and saying hi to their friends or something like that, like is such a because it's such a small school. So what is your major, my major Right now? I'm a theater major, and I have yet to decide what specifically in Peter and what does the workload like? Azem, Theater Major. Uh, well, if you're a theater major, I'm pure. Um, you have to take a lot of theater classes, of course, like you do brancheau into other classes within the school. Outside of class is there's a lot of rehearsing, especially if you get into a Main St Show that is just consistent rehearsals from like five to ten. What are classes like in the theater department class was are very interesting, very diverse because you get different spaces, er that you work in. Each teacher has their own very unique style of teaching. They Hey, they all can be very interactive like that's That's something that every single theater teacher has like they're all very interactive and very unique to teaching you specifically, like you feel, uh, you don't feel like just another number in this theater department. So what are the pros and cons of the school pros and cons of this school? I was a lot of the pros are the community. Um, a lot of people are so active and trying to get you to go out and participate in these events and things like that. Like we bring in people, Tio, come do, like speeches and and talks and talks backs and all sorts of different things. I feel like we're just very close in that sense and very social. Uh, but a lot of coins I've noticed their educationally there is kind of a lot of workload that Khun stress people out there's just not a lot of a three. Like, I know a lot of people struggle if they're in theater and they struggle with a lot of classes outside of theater because there's just such a difference. Educationally, um, so I do feel that that that's kind of a disconnect, and that's like, what? Been kind of one of my biggest complaints. So it can kind of end up in two different worlds and that sense. I mean, we were snowed a today, so that's wonderful. What do you love most about your area of study? I love you. Talking to people who aren't necessarily in theatre after, like a performance or something like that. Look after after I poured my heart out into a performance and then talking to someone and see how they might want to come back to another show like they felt inspired through that they want a partisan being in a theater. Just like knowing the impact it has on people is just one of the most empowering parts of, uh, what I do. You know, of course, there's bonds and things that you make throughout this job, that it's very rewarding. Uh, like if you if you go to the different departments within our department, you get very, very different. Workload, a very different experience every single time, and it definitely humbles you who last question advice to your scene yourself. It's something that I'm definitely struggling with Now, uh, that I would hope I would achieve as a senior, um, and carry on throughout. Definitely to be a bit more confidence and to trust myself a lot more, I think that that would get me farther than a lot of other things that maybe wonderful.