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March 02, 2006
Silver Slippers
Life, as I mentioned earlier, has been exhausting of late. I lost my voice a week ago today, and it's just now coming back. Which wouldn't be that big a deal, except that I have summer rep auditions the day after tomorrow, and I'm afraid I'm not going to have much of a voice for them. So for the first time in countless years, I might have the summer off.
I'm not sure I'm ready for that.
But then it dawned on me, I won't really have the summer off. Because my friend Karma and I are writing a play together. And my friend Ginger (and hopefully Maaike as well) and I are going to Grenada some time this year. And hopefully I'll get to work with some high school students from Lapwai. Which I have wanted to do ever since I saw them at a competition last fall. They need some help with the basics, and once they learn those, there will be no stopping those children. And if I really can't stand not doing Shakespeare for an entire summer, I can do a show of my own. Nothing's stopping me. Nothing except fear. And that's just bullshit.
So I took a break from working on my audition pieces. It's funny. I've been working on a piece that seems like a good idea for so many reasons but I just can't find a connection to it right now, so I'm going to go with a piece that seems like a bad idea for so many reasons, only it resonates within me like the deep tolling of a bell. The kind that makes even your bones quiver. And if that's what my psyche wants...
But back to the break. I looked out the kitchen window while waiting for my throat coat tea to finish brewing and I saw this:
A Lovely Little Silver Slipper of a Moon
I wonder if I'm too young to be working on Amanda Wingfield...
Posted by sally at March 2, 2006 08:44 PM
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