Loving Theatre & the Belhaven Family

I’m a Sophomore here at Belhaven University. I came from out of country to Belhaven, I never got to go to the Art Discover Days, and the one time I got to visit… there weren’t any students on campus, and the theatre department was pretty much empty… It was a scary decision to make without really knowing what I was getting myself into. Luckily for me, there was someone else who was looking out for me, and knew what He was doing.
I arrived at Belhaven shaking in my boots, relatively unexperienced in anything having to do with theatre, but knowing that something was pulling me to this school and this theatre program. I threw myself into the program, not knowing what else there was to do. And somewhere along the long hours in rehearsals, in learning to work the sound board, in working on the sets… I fell in love with it. All I know is that now I can’t picture myself doing anything else.
Someone a few weeks ago asked me if being a theatre major with an emphasis on production sucks you life away. My response: YES! Hahaha, we all feel like that sometimes, especially around show times… it gets stressful. But the truth of the matter is that while being a theatre major consumes large time blocks of your life, it really is just giving you a different and unique lifestyle. It puts you into a ‘theatre’ family. And that’s just what we are here: one big theatre family. It means life is not always a bowl of roses, but it means that we can lean on eachother for support… Loving theatre and striving for excellence worthy of our creator is what we’re all about here. That and the fact that our foundation is Christ means that you share some common ground with everyone here. And though your time is spent in a large dark room for extended periods of time you do it together with your ‘familiy’ creating…… and that is such a thrill.
WM

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