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Reflection Of Romeo And Juliet

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In the fall of 2017 I met a man named Mr. Anton Bucher. We were standing in the middle of my high school auditorium, center stage, and he was telling me about how he has been waiting to direct here for 10 years. How he had a goal and worked to make it happen. Next to me, telling me his story, is this big, bold man with a booming voice that could travel through 10-inch steel. After we had finished swapping a few theatre stories, we sit down to discuss the upcoming production season. He tells me for the fall production we will be doing Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. He stands up and starts to describe his vision for the production. He describes it as “Steampunk meets post-apocalypse western. With Asian influence!”. Just as I finish …show more content…

My parents became best friends with him and his wife that night and Mr. Bucher gave me a technicians knife and we became good friends.
As Romeo and Juliet fades away, we begin to work on our next show, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. We will be performing this show as a one act play for our state competition. When we start this journey, Mr. Bucher had recently devolved mouth sores and he was exhausted because they were keeping him awake, yet, he still was there early and stayed late. About five weeks in, we all show up to a Saturday rehearsal and Mr. Bucher did not look okay, he was pale and looked sickly. After lunch, he disappeared for a while and when he came back he looked like he was about to pass out. He came to me, Almost in tears, and asked me to take over rehearsal because he had to go to the emergency room.
He asked me not to tell anyone that he was going to the emergency room, so we continued rehearsals as usual. That night, I got a call from him. He explained that they were really concerned and that he was not going to be there for our public performance that upcoming Friday. Monday night after rehearsal I received another call from Mr. Bucher. As soon as I answered the phone, I could tell that he was upset. He explained how he had Leukemia and that he would be out for a while. He started to weep and apologize that he wouldn’t be able to finish directing the show and keep apologizing profusely

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