A MESSAGE FROM HG ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, THOMAS PUTNAM

The 2012 Season…our 22^nd…is full. It is full of shows and programs and concerts and workshops and cabarets and gatherings. These are opportunities for people of all ages to enrich and empower their lives through community performing arts. These opportunities are a chance to embrace the human condition in a way that can effect a change in our lives.

Changes can be scary. We may not really want to put ourselves in the position of change… getting pushed out of our comfortable box. We may not want to explore the chance that we may be forced to see life and situations and challenges in a new way. But this may be just what we need; and it immerses us more richly in the human experience.  

And it all gets messy. Secrets.  Passions. Sacrifices. Melodies and harmonies and discord. Physical hardships and ailments. Dangers. Laughter. Life gets messy and we try to make some sense of it. We need context. The performing arts provide a context for all of the messiness that gets scary at times. The opportunity to be able to explore the messiness of life in some context that helps us see more clearly is an incredible opportunity. One that we can’t afford to miss.

I’m glad you’ve joined us as we embrace the exploration...as we engage in the conversation…as we plunge into the glorious messiness of life. Let us, then, as does the Wandering Jew in UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL , purpose to “find a way to behold this hash of a creation, to take this muck and holy mess of a life, and winnow out and revel in every bit of beauty and worth that’s in it so long as we’re in it.”