Today it was back to school in metro Atlanta. My son started pre-K, so I’m in an educational state of mind.
My family attended a children’s theatre performance this past weekend that I’m still trying to process, as far as how to share with the company’s powers-that-be how poor the experience was–constructively. I thought I’d do it here, as a blog post: Top 10 Tips for Successfully Engaging Young Patrons and their Parents at Your Show. But two days later I’m still having difficulty not coming off as snarky, and that is not my intention.
So I’ve tabled the idea and decided that I will just email the artistic director, as it was she who solicited our attendance in the first place. And lest you get the wrong impression, know that it wasn’t necessarily the show itself with which I took issue, but all the lacking supportive factors ’round it that prevented a pleasantly professional theatre outing.
Suffice to say that as I addressed my husband’s question of, “We drove all the way out here for that?!” on the ride home, I regretted not taking our children to see a closing weekend performance of Sleeping Beauty at the Center for Puppetry Arts instead, given the free tickets I’d been offered. I’d just wanted to give “the little guy” a chance–the same chance I’d want afforded to me as a fledgling playwright.
The thing is, we have to recognize opportunities to shine when they’re presented and seize them. Otherwise, the patron or production lost may be our own.
Class dismissed.
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