Closure

So, here I am, in front of the computer trying to sum up this conservatory................... Well, I can't. I don't how to sum up the feeling of being surrounded by people who are so committed and full of talent that they inspire you to push yourself further than you've ever gone before. I don't know how to sum up the feeling of laughing until your sore, and in that moment becoming the best of friends. And I sure as hell do not know how to sum up how it feels to put on one of Shakespeare's greatest plays in a mere three weeks and still manage to take the audience's breath away.

Perhaps I will never know exactly how to describe those feelings. Perhaps reaching closure from such an experience is far too ambitious, and perhaps it is better that way. I have learned so much about theatre and myself from the Burning Coal Summer Theatre Conservatory of 2009 that maybe it should never really end. Perhaps it is taking that knowledge with us that makes the memory live on as it should.

And so, my friends, for I feel as if you have all become my friends, I know it may seem like the end; yet what we've learned and what we've felt will always live on. As the summer seems to slip away and we go our separate ways, I will always remember those three weeks in July when we, as a cast, made magic. Beautiful, glorious magic. For that, you all have touched my heart, and I am honored and amazed to have been a part of it. Thank you.

"Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot. We'll be together whatever the weather. Whether we like it or not!"-- Who needs closure anyway!?

Sincerely, Dylan Goodman