Cardenio

There were two definitions of children's theater, generally speaking. Though Minoth quietly professed to love children and their childish foibles, their eccentricities and their inabilities, he definitely knew which one he preferred, and it wasn't the one that involved parading a platoon of tykes into a multipurpose room for the sole purpose of spending an hour and a half exclusively performing the entire repertoire of upper elementary attention-getters.

That was Minoth. Minoth attracted the odd ones out, the ones with the patience to warm to an awkward antisocialite among the difficult type of crowd. Minoth could never hold the masses at bay well enough nor long enough to be able to accurately entertain the philosophical bouts of ten-year-olds with some kind of repressed second-language trauma.

Addam, however, excelled with an entire cafetorium at his disposal. While Minoth naturally spoke a shout, Addam naturally shouted speech. It came as easy as breathing to him to modulate his volumes for whoever needed sit up and hear.

Minoth wanted dramatis personae at a common core reading level, diagnostically adjusted with his most well-studied replacement puns for the maestro to masterfully deliver. Addam wanted the children to make up their own stories and act them out, plain and simple.

Did that make Minoth a control freak? Maybe a misanthrope? Perhaps even a curmudgeon?

Well. Only if he refused to play along with Addam's troupe, and he never did that.

Picture Minoth on an overturned crate, describing to several small and sticky individuals what it meant to have rising and falling action. Picture Addam then ambling over to take an aural gander at the eager suggestions being raised for the thrall of the climax, and offering without a moment's delay to build whatever sets were needed.

"I thought you fancied yourself a director, Minoth," observed Addam, the producer. "Yet nothing ever seems to happen."

Just for the chance to partake in repartee with someone his own size, Minoth shot back, "It's not my fault they don't appreciate art."