After spending my time up in Door county and helping them build the theatre that they have recently put to use for the inaugural season of the new artistic team, I have realized all that I have done for them and all that they have done for me. I have heard and read that this season is one of the best that they have seen up in Door county in a long time. Both plays are selling out, and the new theatre is definitely a hit. I have seen some pictures of the space now, and the way they mold it into the worlds of Macbeth's Scotland or Ferdinand's Navarre is awesome. They use the space and everything that we put together to put together a great looking show.
I realized that some of the things that I learned up there are already rubbing off on me. As I am working on some shows to perform down in Des Moines, I see that we are running some of the rehearsals like the way we ran our workdays up there. It is a really democratic structure and ideas are welcome and invited from everyone. Not everyone is good at everything, so using each others abilities to lift the entire group is necessary and an awesome experience. If everyone is working on something different at that time, you know that they are working towards a common goal. You know that the goal is so huge and important to everyone that you have no worries that they are working hard and will get the job done. I honestly believe that this mentality is something that is bringing our shows together, and it is something that helped bring the theatre at Door County together. This experience was very valuable to me, and I am hoping that with my last semester at Iowa State I can use what I have learned there, and wherever I end up after that.
-Drew McCubbin
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