by Hecce 57 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I had the opposite experience to you stuck. It was during rehearsals for dramas that I felt what seemed like genuine comradery, possibly because we were all out of our comfort zone and so we relied on each other a bit more, I really can't explain why.
Of course the same people would go back to being their usual jerky selves back at the KH.
I think that the drama that you are referring as Exodus and the Zimri one is the same that I am calling the Moses drama.
My experience was the different, one of the few places where it felt like everybody was equal and you could laugh at the mistakes and gaffes of even the heavy duty guys.
Never was in a congregation that did a drama. Sounds like fun although by the time we left the drama was prefixed by a talk and was less a spectacle and more a demonstration.
I was a stagehand in a drama and also played the part of a rock in one key scene.
The Dramas were fun to be part of because they gave a good sized group of people something to work together on that was considered by their peers to be a noble effort.
As far as the drama's being successful, this was mostly because they were a welcome alternative to the drone of a stodgy old unlettered and ordinary man, reading off some canned talk hour after hour....day after day.
It seems like the dramas were too much fun for the audience and also the participants. We can't have that here, better to use that time digging trenches and building KH.
In the late 1980's or early 1990's (I believe), I had my 15 minutes of fame as Benjamin in one of the dramas that dealt with Joseph and Pharaoh. Sorry I can't remember the exact year. It was a district convention in Denver.
