Act in a play

Woww… Finally, Did my first ever Play. I played the role of Stepan Stepanovitch Tschubukov in “A Marriage Proposal”

A Marriage Proposal (sometimes translated as simply The Proposal, Russian: Предложение) is a one-act farce by Anton Chekhov, written in 1888-1889 and first performed in 1890. Although best known for his longer, more serious plays, Chekhov also wrote a number of short farces, which include the one-act A Marriage Proposal. Chekhov wrote several farces, as these types of plays were very popular at the time. The play requires a minimal set and a small cast. It is a fast-paced play of dialogue-based action and situational humour

It’s not exactly a play, but I joined the movie-making club in my school. They are going to make a short film about zombies attack the world. A very strange story line but they cast me as one of the characters! I’m the girlfriend in this one couple who are trapped and have to fight their way out from the zombies. I think it’s going to be quiet hilarious. Very old movie like with a lot screaming and fake blood. Hopefully I can pull it off and not look like a hag in front of the camera. I’m really excited about it!!! It better not turn out as epic failure or else I’ll be very said.

This is a culmination of taking three x 10 week acting classes at a drama studio. I feel so unprepared but at the same time I know I can pull it off. I have to rehearse intensely in the upcoming weeks.

i’ve been a “drama kid” since i was 12 years old (my first play.)

i’ve acted in plays throughout high school, but over the past four years that i’ve been in college for, i was not a drama major and wasn’t really conentrating on theater or drama.
now that i am an unemployed graduate, i’ve forgotten how much a part of my identity that acting was throughout virtually my entire adolescence.
now that i live in a big city and not a small town with a little community theater and no connections to theater type folk, i feel disconnected from and intimidated by auditioning for plays here….

mostly because i have no idea where my acting skill level stands against anyone else anymore, so i don’t know if i’m too amateur to audition for plays in the big city. i wonder how to get started again with my passion for acting since i’ve taken a five year hiatus from even reading or memorizing something as simple as a monologue.

Well, I should say that I got the best start possible for acting in a play. I went through 3 days of non-stop acting workshop which were the best days of my life. I never thought I would enjoy it sooooo much.

And i met a lot of wonderful people there. It was real fun !!!

No words to describe the feeling. I feel like i am alive.

A friend of mine is a theater director and asked me if I knew anyone who looked like me, but could act. I asked her if I could audition for the part, and she agreed. I worked hard to learn my lines and to take direction from her. And after a while I really got the hang of it. I had to think very hard about being the part, and then after lots of thinking, I had to let go and just be the part, without too much thinking. It was a wonderful experience for me, and I heard from the people in the audience that I did a great job. The play sold out (500 seat theater at Boston University’s Tsai’s performance center). I’d love to do this again.

1. A self-important self-centered celebrity-divorce lawyer (Act 1 & Act 2).
2. A VERY punctual/disciplined Dutch professor/lecturer (Act 4 & Act 7)—they sprayed my hair blonde.

I think every shy person should get into acting, once you’re on stage you’re not nervous anymore. I did this in early August 2008. I had so much fun! I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN!

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Illustration credit: http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=527394}

It’s a rush.
It’s better than sex
if you’re proud of it.

But I’m done.
done. done. done.
takes her bow

I think we all do this through out life…why not on a stage. I think it would be a grin to be on stage and get lost in the moment. I don’t see a main character, but a few words, and singing with others would be exciting enough for me. Oh, I used to do costumes for local area, and did get to sing behind the scene..with those performing out front! ((Sat on stage on Broadway for “Cats”, ..as the cats came down to the stage ..I screamed as it moved around me! ..that’s almost talking on stage!))

I’ve really enjoyed the experiences I’ve had with acting, few though they have been. I didn’t have the confidence do it much in high school, but now as an adult the idea really appeals to me. I’ve wanted to take acting classes at college, but I haven’t because I know they would involve improv and “theater games,” which I absolutely dread due to traumatic experiences in middle school Drama!

Anyway, it’s definitely a goal of mine to act in a play someday, although right now I have a lot of other bigger interests and don’t have the spare time.

I am, however, acting in a 20-minute group performance in my Shakespeare class (I’m an English major). We’re doing excerpts from two scenes in Henry IV, Part I. And I’m playing Falstaff… totally the best part. This hardly counts as a play, but it’ll be fun anyway.