Unraveling Debauchery Volume 1: Theater Endearments, Endeavors, Endgames

By Jane Braaten

 Because the traumatic shadows created such haunting darkness in my early universes, my inner energy had to find a route that would allow me to shine, to create, to survive. Neighborhood kids would play dress up in the summertime. We had old clothes over at the neighbor's when her grandkids visited. We would sing and dance and play act like we were queens, not princesses. But those idyllic days of summer in elementary school would change as the family moved from small town, to smaller town, to a town with a seedy gas pump and a malnourished slough. With four moves in four years, my older brother lettered in four high schools but couldn't afford a letter jacket; but I,  I kept reading and singing and play acting.  I also babysat my little brothers and cooked and cleaned and did laundry for a family of 9. The choirs and the bands took me in. I never felt talented. I felt included. That was the most precious gift of my early universes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jane Braaten
• Release date: Feb 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215948279

Book preview

Title Page

Unraveling Debauchery Volume 1:

Theater Endearments, Endeavors & Endgames

Jane Braaten

Copyright 2023

Dedication

To all those shows, those scripts, those comrades. You kept me alive.

Contents

Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction

Lines from an Aging Actress      

Closing Rehearsal Process Soon for Willy and Company

Silent Nudges to Audition

Terms of Endearments, Endeavors, Endgames

Theater: The First Decade

Theater: The Second Decade

The House of Mine and Music

It Was the Fall of my Senior Year in High School

Theater: The Third Decade

Miss Sally Talley during Graduate School

Change. Loss. Pandemic. War: A Whirl of Change in Theatre Arts and Campus Life

Afterword

Introduction

Because the traumatic shadows created such haunting darkness in my early universes, my