Wasted Blossoms
Every morning when I drove to work I seen a blossom tree that reminded me of the play "Whispering Blossoms" by Yang Chiang and could not wait to see it performed at the Carlson Center at Johnson County Community College. I knew nothing about the play and I had never heard anything about the play, but I had worked on the set and assisted with the costumes, so I was a bit eager about the final production of the play.
When I arrived at the Carlson Center and noticed how the set had finally come together, I was a very excited about how the final production would go. The set was constructed to draw me into the Northern rural China stage. The music relaxed my senses as I settled down to enrich myself with a wonderful play.
Once the play began I noticed that from where I was sitting that it was very hard to understand a lot of the actors.
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The stage was not set in a fashion that the whole auditorium could see or hear everything that was going on at all times. I was an usher at the time that I seen the play and a lot of the times while sitting near the door the actors were in a corner of the set that was blocked off from my view and I had to assume what was going on at...