Blog#16

There I am sitting in my seat in the Theater Department,quite as a mouse, listening to the teacher rant about how Theater started out as a form of entertainment in Ancient Greek. When the teacher spoke out my name and demanded me to go on stage I was terrified. I didn't know what to do I was like a lost puppy. I did not know if I was a qualified actress all I could do now was give it my best. A minute felt like an eternity when I was on stage by myself. I was a bit confident because of my past experience before, but I never had to be in front of the whole class alone I was always with someone else. The teacher told me to relax yet I was shaking and I could feel my heart drop every time I heard a laughter or worse, a whisper. Finally my time was up and I waited a couple of seconds for the teacher to comment and I was shocked when she told me I was great. Later on that year I auditioned for a part for our school play Peter Pan, I was casted as a pirate and only had about 5 lines, but something was something. I felt amazing when I went to rehearsals better yet, Opening Night and finally have a chance to outshine myself. A year passed and I continued to act I had been casted as one of the subordinate characters in our play Arsenic and Old Lace. Opening night, I was waiting for that thrill and I was confident, I knew all my lines and knew how to precive my character. When I walked up stage and walked though the door of our set I felt like a actress in a old television show, people clapped and cheered when I was on. I never have felt so important in my life before. When I get on stage I feel I am undefeated against the world, I can honestly say I feel at home when I am in the Drama Department that is my safe place I can go to. I am truly grateful for getting over my fear of being on stage. they do say your hashest critic is yourself. I believe I affected change within myself and i also effected through other people because now my audience can be entertained when Iget on stage.

" He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of the others are either angry or consoled"- Pete Hamill