2 posts tagged “tragedy”
The theater group I've been involved in is now having weekly script readings to pick its shows for the 2009-2010 season. Yes, they pick them out a year and a half ahead. They do this because they operate partly off of a grant from Conoco-Phillips, and they have to have their shows planned before the grant application deadline, which is in June.
Basically, we all get together, pick parts, and read through a play that one of the members recommended. Tonight we read A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. It's hard to say how a man who was having sex with Marilyn Monroe could write something so depressing. Depressing as it is, however, it's a good play. We'll see if it makes the final list.
Next week, we're reading The Foreigner. I recommended it. The play is almost overdone, but it hasn't played here for about ten years, and it's screamingly funny.
And, on a completely unrelated note...
Please...
Don't leave personally owned geese.
Seriously.
As most I'm sure have already heard, thirty-two people were gunned down to day at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA, making for the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Everyones thoughts are - and should be - with the victims and their families. Over the next few months, much more will come out about the shooter and his motivations, as it did in the Columbine shooting.
Working in the industry I do, I also know that much will come out about how the incident was handled by the public safety dispatchers in Blacksburg. What do you do when you work in a 9-1-1 call center and you suddenly start handling an incident such as this one, fielding hundreds of calls from panicked parents and you don't have any information to give them, when students at the school call and ask you how to get to safety, and you don't know what to tell them? Yes, my heart goes out to the victims and families. Being a dispatcher, my heart goes out to the dispatchers, too. Nothing is worse than the feeling of helplessness as others are dying.
