Patience and Understanding...

Walterdale is a true community theatre. That means that aside from our part-time Administrator everyone who works on the shows at Walterdale is a member volunteer. Most of the membership have jobs. Many of them are in other theatre projects as they attempt to start a career. Most of them have family obligations that take up their time. However, sometimes we forget that. When we send an email we want a response right away, not thinking that maybe that person is picking up their kids from school, or at work in Starbucks, or in rehearsal. When we leave a phone message at the theatre on Friday we forget that the Administrator is only in on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays and no one checks the messages until he gets in. We forget that the people we want to reach might be busy painting a set or trying to find a lighting operator. We need things to get done, but we need to have patience and understanding.