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It is 1982 and I am in Santa Fe. I’m touring the enchanted state with my college’s touring theatre company, leaving the campus for 2-3 day performance runs before returning for a day to rest and repair the truck. We perform our plays from the back of an ancient farm truck that breaks down on every leg of the tour. The bed of the truck opens to create a stage so you might say that our stage regularly falls apart, scattering parts and props across the highways of New Mexico. So goes the show! Two rudimentary light trees stand at the downstage corners when the bed is open and we open it often to wait for the tow trucks and mechanics that come to our rescue; we cut an odd picture for passing tourists.
It is the night before we are to leave again and the cast is exhausted and doesn’t want to go. The last breakdown took its toll and the upcoming performance is far away – which means we have no faith that the truck will make it to the performance.
Albert listens to our complaints, rolls his eyes, says something about namby-pamby actors and motions me to follow him. We walk through the high-desert summer night to the maintenance yard. The gate is locked so we hop the fence. We are suddenly laughing ninjas – trying not to attract attention but laughing too hard for stealth. Albert tells me to get into the truck and pop the hood. I hear him tinkering with something and then he closes the hood, smiling. “Tour’s cancelled tomorrow,” he says as we climb out of the maintenance yard.
Safely away from the yard he stops and says, “No one is making you guys go. Damn! Either do it – go and be grateful – or stop complaining and do something about it. At the very least, act on what you want.” Albert was always good for dope slaps. And then he said, “That was fun, wasn’t it.”
Sage advice from my laughing ninja friend: Either do it and be grateful or stop complaining. At the very least, act on what you want.”
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