The first audience came. Tonight, that's followed by the second audience. I expect it will be followed by the third audience, but you really never can tell.
Tonight they're the first paying audience. We continue to make changes. I continue to doubt. But I continue to show up every day and keep going, and I think that is something, yes?
Paranoid that people aren't liking me and aren't telling me, but, I guess that is more about me than it is about what anyone else says. I'm not sure though. I'm not sure about very much in regards to this. I am well aware that I know nothing, so maybe that isn't that surprising, but normally I have more to go on. This time...not sure. I guess it's all very new. And scary. And exciting.
Like Charity Hope Valentine, I just am trying to tell myself 'I"m the bravest individual'. All that stuff.
It's World Theatre Day. John Malkovich said this statement below. I really like the part about rigour. I may lack talent, but I don't lack rigour, when it comes to theatre. So maybe there's hope for me yet!
I'm honored to have been asked by the International Theatre Institute ITI at UNESCO to give this greeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of World Theatre Day. I will address my brief remarks to my fellow theatre workers, peers and comrades.
May your work be compelling and original. May it be profound, touching, contemplative, and unique. May it help us to reflect on the question of what it means to be human, and may that reflection be blessed with heart, sincerity, candor, and grace. May you overcome adversity, censorship, poverty and nihilism, as many of you will most certainly be obliged to do. May you be blessed with the talent and rigor to teach us about the beating of the human heart in all its complexity, and the humility and curiosity to make it your life's work. And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, "how do we live?" Godspeed.
- John Malkovich
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