Florida Culture for the Week of October 8 by Josh Garrick

October 10 to November 11 – RACE -- A Courtroom Drama

With each new place you go, you can have a new start. Take my friend Johnny, for example. In all of his 65 years of life, he has had to start over many times, in nearly all of the places he has lived.

I see Rimas coming and hurry towards him. Rimas is an interesting man, and I am glad to see that he has come to meet us. Yesterday while we were having dinner at his house in Lithuania, he invited us to come and have a look around his prosectorium (lab where he dissects bodies) in the Vilnius University. He had served us delicious soup that tasted sweet but a little tangy, and the taste is still lingering in my mouth even now, the next morning.

When you think of career paths that benefit from international experience, one that you usually won’t think of is the janitorial business. That’s because it doesn’t, really. But another career path you usually won’t think of is film.

Mention youth theatre to most people, even theatre lovers, and a vision of interminable, earnest productions of "classics" comes to mind. Many people perceive youth theatre as a necessary evil, useful for training promising young actors but usually uninteresting to anyone without a relative in the cast. If this stereotype were ever true, which is debatable, it isn't any more.