Finding ME Again

The beginning of this process up to the end of last week has been a big bumpy ride.  I didn’t really recognise myself as who I am and as an actor.  It scared me a lot and was worried at one point if I was somehow changing into some complete not knowing idiotic monster!  However, since Monday of this week, I seem to have put that all aside and really learnt from my mistakes and I feel this has been the best week yet, and now hopefully the weeks will continue to get better and better!  In fact, I know they will because I am so excited about this production!  I feel I have found me again and I have  finally recognised myself again.  I don’t think it is a case of turning over a new leaf.  It is more like I lost my leaf and now I have found it again!  And I think I will cling to that leaf as tightly as possible.  I know i will progress with my work and mature as a person, but the last couple of weeks have proven to me that I am happy with who I am and I don’t want to change. 

Since I have been cast in such an amazing and fun part as one of the three witches, I have not stopped thinking of ideas along with Kelly and Carly!  I feel that this is a chance for me to prove to myself that I can be versatile and to not be type cast.  I really enjoyed what we did as the witches today.  In the morning we went off and basically just went a bit wild and improvised the whole time as quite young witches.  There was a point where we were searching through mud to find bugs for Boogie Woogie and gave ourselves no limits on how crazy we were and almost acted half the time as if we weren’t even from this planet and it was great fun!  We kept with the young witch idea when we were asked to do a similar piece as yesterday’s but this time using dialogue and switching the statuses between characters.  Jack asked us for Kelly to be the most dominant one, me be the middle one and Carly to be the lowest.  We really played around with such things as using the entire space and taking ownership as it had been handed over to us at that point.  Also, me being the middle one, I had the idea of really shadowing Kelly’s character’s every move and words.  Basically being a bit of a bum lick!  I think this worked because it was still showing Kelly had the bigger status over me and Carly’s character was more just being plain dumb than being in a world of her own and I think it really worked and it was funny. 

Carly, Kelly and I are close friends outside the space, but to me it doesn’t and shouldn’t make a difference to how we work with each other on the floor.  I suppose being close as a trio, it does help if we are already friends, but if we are professional enough we would be able to find that relationship whatever the relationship is between us off the floor.  I think we have really connected as the three witches and are always working on doing stuff together as a three making us more of a solid trio.  I think that is why the gags are working already in what we are doing because we have that connection and so the statuses really stand out in it.  I am really pleased that other actors in the company can see this too and it makes me feel very positive that we are already moving in the right direction.  We obviously still have a lot of work to do, but to know we are already working well, the time we have before us will only make us stronger!  Bring it on!

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