Though Dost Perform

Tonight was ‘show’ night. We had a short discussion at the beginning of class about order. It was decided that Graham and I would go third. Which is good, three is my lucky number.

When I walked in, Graham cornered me and demanded we run through lines. I wanted to slap him. Sorry dear, you know I love you but your constant need to rehearse is frustrating. He had it all down pat a while ago, I didn’t see the necessity, but I succumbed anyway.

While half of the class went with Raymon to discuss… something, the rest of us for prepared to present. Graham and I did a quick run through, this was our first time with an actual pillow, so I thought it would be good to practice at least once with it.

I am one of those actors that gets nervous, but once I get up there and start doin’ my thang, I get really into it and relaxed and by the end I want more. I remember watching Jessica and James’ scene and sort of internally freaking out.

Then we were up. We did it, it was ok. Could have been better, but it could have been MUCH worse. Even though I love Othello, I just wanted to get this done. It’s not as if I fretted coming to class to do it, or didn’t rehearse. I just felt like it was over done. Like doing it more would only be like kicking a man when he’s down, hitting something with your car and backing up to hit it again (man, I am full of metaphors lately!). I just felt relieved to get this off my plate. Even though there is another scene coming up.

I enjoyed watching every else’s scenes. Especially the ones I hadn’t seen before. No offence to anyone, but I was bored watching the ones I had already seen (note my last journal entry). Everyone did a very good job.