Tellabration 2014 was a great learning experience. The telling was fantastic and the professionalism shown by the tellers was great. Each of the stories had their own connection with the audience. Some singing, others telling bold and confident and of course the humor stood out. The personal stories told by an ex-marine and the heartache a mother who lost a child was something I will never forget. You can only imagine the pain that she endured in that situation, and the courage a soldier has to face when the enemy or so called enemy is a child. Only a story directly told from them, noticing the fear and sadness in their eyes helped us understand what they went through.
The room was filled with an energy that we all felt. Not that it wasn’t happy or inviting, it was more like our performance really had to grab the audience and pull them into our story, kidnap them from their existence in the present and release them into the story. I felt that each of the tellers did a great job in doing this. I know that this was something we hadn’t experienced in a classroom or at any of our performances thus far. I am glad that we were able to overcome this and have a great telling.
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