BAPT at U.S. Customs & Border Protection
Big Apple Playback Theater (BAPT) had a great performance in August for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency at JFK airport. They were invited in for their Family Heritage and Diversity Program. Approximately 60 people were in attendance and many told their stories about their work family and home family. . .
One woman, a mother of five, happy to have her middle child going off to college- one less person at home!; another man, in uniform, worked at JFK for 20 years, leaving to work at SFO for a better position- leaving his aging mother and all of his colleagues behind a pair; a supervisor feeling anxious because the fiscal year ends the end of September and there is a lot of loose ends to tie up = high stress; another woman planning a 90th birthday party for her dad and though very happy and proud that he is still so lucid and alive it has been a very emotional process weeding through all the photos and memories for the slide show; one of the stories was about how a woman, who when young, used to travel the world during summers (instead of going to summer camp) and visit relatives in different countries and one summer when she was ten she lived on a farm in Germany with her German grandparents and she had to deliver a baby calf at 5am or else she wouldn’t get any breakfast!
Audience members really got into it after hesitating for the first few moments… it was adventure that really paid off!
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