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September 07, 2005
Comments from Nan Zabriskie
Ahhhh, Rarig Center
What I remember about Rarig all revolves around memories of coming in from the nose-hair freezing walk to school. Rushing in the big doors to be greeted by the well and the pit at the bottom….who is in the pit…check it out, then on to the shops. I remember tucking in to the scene shop to do some painting, mixing those wonderful powder colors with the great gloopy hide glue. Lance was always around to drop pearls of wisdom or give me some healthy grief. On to the costume shop via Gino’s office; she pretended not to know you were there. She couldn’t let on that she was glad to see you; she just assumed that “I’m too busy! Get back to your own shop” attitude. She never fooled me. The costume shop meant Tessie and her latest drawing of beautiful people and her wonderful belly laugh and throat laugh. She and I had a ball in the costume shop creating weird, impossible costumes for our fellow students, learning new techniques and generally exploring the many facets of theatre.
What do I remember most of Rarig aside from the great varied theatre spaces and the impersonal block walls? I remember the people of Rarig, the camaraderie and the quest for yet a better way to tell a story. I’m still on that quest, twenty-five years later.
— Nan Zabriskie, MFA 1979
Posted by utheatre at September 7, 2005 10:17 PM | Memories of former students