It was not very shocking to me that the play Don Quixote was an issue; everything
that the students decide to do becomes an issue some way somehow, but it was
still disturbing. In plays or in real life in general, politics are everywhere,
it’s nothing you can really do about it, but accept it. The students were
pretty upset, and me as a Musical Theatre major I would have been as well. To
work so hard on a performance and then have the department basically tell the
students it’s all in vain would have crushed me. You work so hard during the
process with allowing yourself to be free in your chosen character just to lose
it all. Hessler was also fed up about how the department was so caught up in
the politics and twisting history to make everyone believe it is something
wrong with everything they do. After the
commotion was settled and the department came to their senses, the play was
allowed to be performed again. It is understood
that both Adam and Hessler had a great influence on the students, but there is
no way I would have felt bad for that the way they did. The students ended up
not performing as well as they did the first time. This wasn't a surprise for
me; I probably would have felt the same way. They were discouraged too badly so
their confidence has been lowered. Reading this part of Hessler really saddened
me; only because I can relate in so many ways.
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