Now, you may be wondering how is that possible. Well, it actually is close to the mind that work really IS a theatre. Not every work, but exactly the ones where workers perform in front of the eyes of their customers. They are acting, being good at it or not so much, but they ARE acting. Of course, they have to act in a way that each and every guest of theirs is engaged with each and every interaction, that's at least how Pine & Gilmore put it and I personally like it.
With the Christmas Experience Academy, in Rovaniemi, that I am in, we went to have a lecture at Rakas, if I remember correctly, and eventually we had lunch there. When we finished with our food a pair of Elves, helpers of Santa in Santa Park, came to pick us up and to take us to a magical place. YES! You guessed it, it was Santa Park. They showed us their magnificent magical cavern. The Elves were surprisingly friendly since they just met us, but hey after all they are very happy magical creatures😊😁✨! They were talking to us and were telling us things about what we were going to do together. And since we were in the cave, we went to the Elf School🎄🎄. Fun Elf fact, the Elves go to school for whole 99 years... maybe I already mentioned before😅, oops... Anyways, we went to Elf School and there the Elves taught us 6 very important Elf Lessons.
Be kind to all the creatures😊❤️
Peeking through the windows (to check if the kids are naughty or nice😁)
Tip-Toe walking (that's the most quiet way to get to the window if the kids are sleeping😴)
Elf Surfing🏄 (since the Elves also like to go to the beach and the waves there)
The mosquito song (because the Elves do not applause the mosquitoes like us humans😂😂)
Kiiver, Oover, Toover... (magical words, saying them somewhere in the world elf magic happens)
In the end when we graduated from Elf School (not in 99 years😂) 🎓, the Elves presented us with diplomas and hats (the ones on the picture). This is a day in the summer at the Elf School.
🛑WARNING: If you want the magic to stay DO NOT CONTINUE reading!🛑
You see, this is how actually workers are acting, they are being on stage, in this case the Elf School, and they engage us with interactions, they taught us how to surf, to sing and dance, to walk like them and to peek like them. These workers are very good at what they are doing and they love it. It is an experience for both them and the customers, since sometimes the customer are making the experience for the actors. This is how work becomes a theatre... and the audience also gets the stage, sometimes. 😁
Picture by Stoev, Boris 2018
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