Expressed!

It was a gloomy Sunday, tired and exhausted after a morning rehearsal session I set out to the Mecca of Theatre in bangalore, Rangashankara. WeMove Theatre was performing a short play, excited and thrilled I reached the venue, It was a big performance! From the time WeMove was started in 2006 I always had nurtured it in my hands, may be I always lacked confidence that others can nurture it as well but things had changed now. From being the single person to print and stick the posters to making sure the play goes on right and some times even act! I had grown now to handle something more big. WeMove Theatre was just 6 months old when I held it in my hands, I was careless and reckless then but every time I saw the eyes of the small 6 months old baby! I cried in vain wondering how to raise it?

Today it was over 5 years old and 54 shows old, WeMove Theatre is always a baby to me, I always thought it needed some one who could nurture it, least I realized that it had grown big enough to nurture people in turn. I waited long to get to this 'Moment of Realization' and it was on May 27th that I felt it. 

It was a WeMove show and I wanted to feel it like every one feels it, I have heard people critisczing us, blasting us, scolding us, praising us, pampering us, declaring us; I have heard people feeling a WeMove show. I wanted too..after all it is my first loved child! I grew up playing with it day-night from past 5 (now close to 6 years) I felt that I am atleast eligible to feel it atleast once. 

I decided not to land myself on back stage and bought a ticket for myself and stood in the queue along with many other people who were all eager to witness theatre in its best form! As I moved inch by inch towards the auditorium I started to feel my child just when I heard some one whispering

"WeMove is performing.. Mirror today..remember the play we watched the other day..." My ear could not stop but over hear only to realize that my child is not anymore a small child, "I started dieting after mirror.." she exclaimed, I touched my heart once and heard the heart beat.. there was a complete silence everywhere.. as I took my seat in the auditorium to see my first WeMove show. 

Though I have spent most of time in control/light rooms which are not on stage, they are always like sitting in a burning furnace.. this time I was just one of the hundreds of audience..

I had to nothing to do except watch! I was tensed, I had'n watched a WeMove play before I was not sure if it was worth the ticket money I paid, My heart was beating faster and prompted every second that I had to be there at the back stage looking after things, "Is WeMove old enough to sustain itself?" I questioned myself! My mind stopped me from jumping off the seat and asked me to relax! 

My child was on the stage and I was watching my child in the beams of lights that was jumping like a waterfall from the top! I just hoped to see my child victorious. Many like me sat there expecting entertainment and good fun. Just as when my heart almost started to run faster I saw something beautiful.. I sensed a feeling..I started to forget myself, My child was there right on the center of the stage performing.. in the form of three brilliant actors making every one feel a WeMove show. For the first time I felt it as well, I felt the pain, I felt the misery, I felt the sweat, I felt the fights, I felt the arguments, I felt the hard work, I felt all the begging I had to undergo! but then suddenly my mind stopped feeling.. It was like a calm wave hitting the sea shores. For a moment I closed my eyes to feel the calmness in me only to open to find every one applauding and cheering my baby! I turned across the auditorium to see every one smashing their hands together to show their love to my child! I too, not knowing what to do started to applaud but just then  I realized that my eyes was filled tears only to realize that my child today has grown from just being a small in- sensitive shy kid to a big responsible adult. 

For the first time I loved my tears and for the first time I watched a WeMove show, As I walked down the auditorium I heard voices speaking about WeMove, talking about WeMove... I just went to a corner took my seat and gazed at the WeMove logo and smiled at it... I presume it smiled back....!