"All My Trials", Peter, Paul, and Mary.
I grew up on stage. My first theatrical performance was at age six. My last was at age 20. I did all the things, onstage and off, all the roles from sound to lights to props to stage manager. At 19, my beloved mentor Tony forced the community theatre to let me direct.
When I was about 15 or so, we did an adaptation of Spoon River Anthology. And it wasn't scripted, it was based in the book itself. I was young, so I didn't know how shocking and radical the original book was, or how bold it was to stage it, in small-town Kansas in '73.
Outdoor stage, shite acoustics, we learned the poems and the songs, cuz that's what young actors did.
And the most important memory to me is of singing "All My Trials". I had never heard it before, the culture I grew up with was thin, but hearing it and then singing it, well well well, a theme.
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