Nicholas Thurkettle » Peoria http://www.nicholasthurkettle.com Writer, Actor, Filmmaker Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:57:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nobody here but us ghosts http://www.nicholasthurkettle.com/2010/04/10/nobody-here-but-us-ghosts/ http://www.nicholasthurkettle.com/2010/04/10/nobody-here-but-us-ghosts/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:31:22 +0000 nt http://www.nicholasthurkettle.com/?p=156 I’m in Peoria, Illinois, in the upstairs lobby of Bradley’s theatre building – the Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts. I remember quite distinctly that there were not computers just laying around for anyone to use back when I was here. I do remember there was an excellent little crash couch on this spot, and that at one overnight lock-in we set up a Nintendo 64 and played Mario Kart from it in the wee hours.

The students are all running around rehearsing the tech schedule for the shows tonight; walking through lighting changes and furniture moves, last-minute costume approvals, vocal exercises. I have had a big grin on my face ever since I got here; this place is a home to me, and that feeling took me the moment I walked back through the doors. The students are different people but the same types I knew – passionate and determined and still not-quite-formed, awkwardly brilliant and beautiful.

I don’t have any job to do today but plant my ass in the seat with the “Reserved” sign on it, but I am absorbing this hectic electric urgency happening all around me. There’s a show about to happen. Only hours to go.

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