OOC: This thread is open to all, be you actors, be you patrons, be you bar staff
Eden
Last night I caught a glimpse of myself in the dressing room mirror. The heavy red curtains of the front stage cast an eerie Victorian backdrop to my grimy reflection and I was reminded of the first time I had come to work at the theatre.
I could have been no more than fourteen, maybe fifteen, the first time I pushed open the dark oak doors in the coat room, stealing a meek yet excited glance of gorgeous women in frilled dresses, eyes deeply charcoaled and lips laquered to a chinadoll perfection. The scent of baking popcorn and creamy liqueur mingled together with some strange sense of absolute compatibility, the musky aroma of strangers coats were all but obliterated by their enticing combination.
I was quickly spotted, quickly put to work, quickly rusted my innocence and developed the cynical, intelligently sexual nature of someone who's seen it all and knows the workings of it. Luckily it didn't take me long to realise that the stage was not where I belonged and thus, with the good use of brains and bust, I became manager then owner, all by the ripe old age of 24.
To own this theatre in its secluded corner of an out of the way lane, creeping with vines and the atmosphere of debauchery, ingrained with years of lust and desire too deply imbedded in the antique floorboards and ornate ceilings to ever erase the lines of, is some accomplishment. To become a spectator to those who visit us and those who perform is a gifted position to be sure.
But something is missing, and has been for a long time.
I feel as if the gilding on my little castle has tarnished, pieces here and there flaked off to reveal an empty shell. There is, I fear, a desperate need for a change in the weather. How this shall come about, and who shall be the cause of it, remain a question to be answered.
Eden
Last night I caught a glimpse of myself in the dressing room mirror. The heavy red curtains of the front stage cast an eerie Victorian backdrop to my grimy reflection and I was reminded of the first time I had come to work at the theatre.
I could have been no more than fourteen, maybe fifteen, the first time I pushed open the dark oak doors in the coat room, stealing a meek yet excited glance of gorgeous women in frilled dresses, eyes deeply charcoaled and lips laquered to a chinadoll perfection. The scent of baking popcorn and creamy liqueur mingled together with some strange sense of absolute compatibility, the musky aroma of strangers coats were all but obliterated by their enticing combination.
I was quickly spotted, quickly put to work, quickly rusted my innocence and developed the cynical, intelligently sexual nature of someone who's seen it all and knows the workings of it. Luckily it didn't take me long to realise that the stage was not where I belonged and thus, with the good use of brains and bust, I became manager then owner, all by the ripe old age of 24.
To own this theatre in its secluded corner of an out of the way lane, creeping with vines and the atmosphere of debauchery, ingrained with years of lust and desire too deply imbedded in the antique floorboards and ornate ceilings to ever erase the lines of, is some accomplishment. To become a spectator to those who visit us and those who perform is a gifted position to be sure.
But something is missing, and has been for a long time.
I feel as if the gilding on my little castle has tarnished, pieces here and there flaked off to reveal an empty shell. There is, I fear, a desperate need for a change in the weather. How this shall come about, and who shall be the cause of it, remain a question to be answered.