Broment

I just had a Broment. A Broment is a Bro Moment. And mine was awesome.

Men deal with how to stay strong and not let on that they feel weak in “Suspended.”

I am directing three plays as part of New Play Cafe’s Legends (in ten minutes or less) and one of them is a man’s play. Suspended was written by Kurt Kalbfleisch, and features two great actors, Don Loper and Erik Cram as marines who served in the same company 40 years apart. The Broment happened the end of our rehearsal (Saturday, 9-30-14).

I thanked the cast and told them there was nothing left for me or Kurt to give them. That they had full ownership of a play birthed by a man, and directed by another, about two men doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.

It had been an emotional rehearsal, simply because we were able to see into the lives and feel the emotions if two ordinary men under extraordinary circumstances. We cried. We hugged.

Best rehearsal ever.