Chapter 1: No Gravity 1 No Gravity These are the most cosmically awesome places at my mom's theater: The lighting grid, where I pretend I'm an alien, studying the bizarre behavior of the earthlings below. (And I tell you what: actors might as well be a whole other species.) The trapdoor, but really the hidden space underneath the trapdoor, where it sounds like a rocket ship heading into orbit when a bunch of kids clomp across the stage up above. The stage manager's booth, with more screens and switches than the control panel at the International Space Station, where I've never been but will go someday. And this is the absolute-no-doubt-about-it least cosmically awesome place in the Bainbridge Youth Theater: The stage. Excerpted from Not Starring Zadie Louise by Joy McCullough All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
