Working in theater and other live performing arts can be lonely at times. All relationships are liminial but it feels like those of us the arts have gotten used to much more temporary bonds than most of the public. We come together for a season, a month, or even a weekend, expend tremendous amounts of energy to create a piece of art, and then we go our separate ways.
And then one random Tuesday afternoon you go to a product demo at a university within a few hours drive and you discover that one of your friends from grad school, someone you haven’t seen in twenty years, is the professor of lighting.