All the world’s a stage…
My life is a play, of which I am the director, the main character, and the audience.
Everyone involved and everything I have ever done has brought me to the current scene.
- I have my core actors that have been with me since the curtain went up. Sometimes they are out there on the stage acting out the scenes, and sometimes they are waiting in the wings.
- I’ve allowed actors in without auditions.
- I have villains that have shown themselves from the very beginning.
- I have jokers that jump around and create mischief. Sometimes funny, sometimes annoying.
- I have characters that bring with themselves the dum.dum.dummmm type of music. Where everyone knows that issues are going to begin to arise.
- I’ve employed the best of the makeup artists to allow me to be whomever that scene requires.
- Different props have taken the place of actors in different places.
- I’ve had to change the blocking of the cast to create a better vision to the “audience”.
- I have missed some cues and created other ones that better fit my storyline.
- My sets have changed throughout the show.
- As my character evolves my dialogue has changed.
- Each act can, and sometimes does, become a dress rehearsal for the next.
- Critics have both praised and disapproved of my methods of acting.
- I have been yelled at by actors offstage during scenes and backstage after them.
- Techs have been called in at times to fix various things and I allow them to teach me so as to be able to fix whatever it is the next time.
- I’ve allowed cast members to upstage me, even in my own play.
- I’ve asked the more respected cast members to prompt me when I am not sure which way the storyline should go next.
At curtain call, every act, every soliloquy, every interval, every tragedy, and every farce will combine to be the best show of my life…”The Show of My Life”.
Go out there and create YOUR Show.
Audition cast members, practice your lines, set your stage, figure out your initial storyline!
BREAK A LEG!
Posted on March 14, 2012, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Thanks for this, Noelle! You are so wise and fortunate to know that you are the director of your own life at such a young age. 🙂 Ain’t it fun to know that you are in charge?
Keep on blooming,
Joy