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October 20, 2005
Wonderful
I had an amazing rehearsal last night. I'm in a couple of scenes for the directing class. As part of their coursework, student directors apply their talents to actual scenes. They were short actors this year, so I volunteered to be used if needed. I'm in two scenes.
One of them is from Frankie and Johnny, which is a play I love anyhow, and I am having a wonderful time. I'm working with a fellow who is ostensibly slightly older than half my age (a friend refers to this as my Mrs. Robinson moment), but he has so much talent it's astonishing. He listens, he's focused, he has huge amounts of energy and he is not afraid to let a moment or a response happen.
We were doing some improvs last night in which the tension was almost a third actor in the room, and he not only didn't try to get out of it (nerves and/or inexperience will do that), he encouraged it. He was playing as hard as I was. It was fantastic.
I feel slightly bad for him because my big, scary husband walked up to him one day shortly after our very first rehearsal and said, "So you're acting with my wife. Behave yourself." So mean. What a huge obstacle to make the poor guy deal with right as he is finding his way in the department. He does seem to have made peace with any demons David may have raised, however.
Posted by sally at October 20, 2005 09:02 AM
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