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February 19, 2007

How Nice

I have all kinds of things to do tomorrow, and absolutely none of them involve rehearsal or performance.

It's not that I don't enjoy acting, because I do. I love the rehearsal process and I have an equal but different love for the run of a show. (Because it's a different animal.) But I have all kinds of things to do because they kept building up over the course of the last few weeks when I had LOTS of rehearsing and performing to do.

So.

Now I can catch up on the other stuff. Like cleaning my office. And doing the laundry. Even those chores sound good to me based on what comes after. Clean office, clean laundry. Excellent results for an afternoon's hard work. And in preparation for all that laundry and office scrubbing, I'm hitting the sack soon. Because before the laundry and the cleaning comes the teaching. Turns out it takes everything I've got to make it through two classes in a row.

I don't know how K-12 teachers find the stamina. Don't get me wrong, I love my students and am having so much fun in my classes, but man, the teaching wears me out. Even when I don't lecture. The brain starts shutting down after class one. I've asked other actor/instructors, and they have the same problem, so I suspect it has something with teaching class at the same level as in a performance or rehearsal. And in theatre, you should put everything you have into the work, so that you're exhausted by the time you're finished. For those of us who act and teach, I suspect the drive just slops over into the classroom.

Which doesn't sound very professional, but I bet it's entertaining to watch.

Posted by sally at February 19, 2007 10:40 PM

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Posted by: Courtney at February 19, 2007 11:53 PM

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