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Writing is a superpower, and it comes with its own high stakes.
It was hard for me to imagine that words on a page—mostly written for my private entertainment—would be projected on the stage of Symphony Hall, a gorgeous theater with high ceilings and velvet cushioned seats. I had no idea what it would feel like to see the characters that I had written four months ago strut around stage, taking audiences on an emotional journey. I couldn’t fathom what it would be like to be transported into the setting I had scrawled on a piece of paper.
Meet Tristian Eggerling, rising actor in David Gordon Green’s ‘Halloween Kills’
Surrounded by smoke machines, severed limbs and other nightmare-inducing special effects, you would think that Tristian Eggerling’s fears would fall into the category of something raw or sanguinary. The truth is that the actor’s greatest fear is the ocean. “Living in...
