The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

As we opened up on Thursday, the nerves of our first performance were in everyone, but than we all thought about it. This play is meant to be funny, and have fun, make people laugh and laugh ourselves at the same time. And most importantly have the energy that makes the audience breathless. When I went on stage the nerves flew away. I realized that this is what I love to do, and if I miss up, who cares, I am pretty sure no one in the audience will know.

I realized throughout this production and especially this week, I understood that teamwork is a must in a ensemble. This performance depends on everyone and as long as gave your 150% and your team did as well, everything will look perfect. And we worked hard and the end result went up and beyound my own expectation and I am sure everyone elses. The audience worked with us through the participation to understanding our subtle jokes. All in all, this production was a complete blast. I loved working on it, and my only dissappointment is that i wont be able to to perform it again.

But I really excited to be able to direct The Little Prince with Julie. She has a really really creative side and I know that together we can make this production one of the best, and that is really hard compared to what we just did. But I believe that it is possible. We will put our heart and mind into this production and make it a memorable one. And I already have ideas in my mind as to how we should produce this.

I have loved this show (The Complete Works) and the people who made it so wonderful, and I really hope that The Little Prince will match this incredible production.

It's SHOW TIME

This week we have practcing our play, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). I am trying really hard to work on my weak points, such as being loud (projection) and atriculating when saying everything. But what I have the hardest time with is catching breath and not knowing when to put a pause in my beginning monolouge. I tend to get tired and my voice cracks when i do the beginning. I realize it happens because my voice is losing strength because I am unable to catch my breath.

I am trying really hard to ad pauses and slow down my monolouge so can breath. Along with that I am having two other parts in the intro. I have to be been for a part when I am talking about the children and how they should fend for themselves. Being mean is the toughest challenge for me. I try my hardest to be mean but than I end up breaking character or it doesnt sound mean at all. I think I should just forget about trying and be mean.

And what is hard is when i have to praise Mayra went she is 'preaching to the crowd'. I think the character should go all out, but going all out is a tougher challenge. How to act like that when I am saying those lines confuses me. I think I am doing it completely wrong because i really dont know how to do it right. It might take more time for me to graasp this concept.

I think this play will be amazing! Everything will fall in place in the end, just like it always does. And the tech/dress rehearsals that are coming up will help as well. I hoping for the best for this show and i really want it to work out, for our director, Sam. Our teacher, Ms. Langess and our entire class. Hoping.