A difference between rehearsal and performance is that in rehearsal you remember what you did on stage.
After a performance, you remember the feel of the stage, the lights, and the few faces in the audience you picked out. You know you did the show, like you did in rehearsal, but differently, because the energy of a room is so different when people fill the seats. But you don't remember the little moments of being on stage itself, actually saying the words, doing the actions.
I think that connects to theater as a medium - it lives in memory, in impression, and that can't just apply to the witness, because theater is connected to community.
It also has to do with adrenaline. Which was running pretty high the other night.
RealAD was such an amazing experience. I became really close with people I barely knew at the beginning of the summer, confronted my aversion to improv, remembered that trust should come before assumed distrust, worked on my writing, and helped to build a show with an amazing group of collaborators. A show that I truly believe made a difference. Even if just for one person, (though I think it was many many more than that), it was worth it. It made me a stronger, more articulate, and more caring person. I am so thankful for that.
Anyways. In the last two weeks I spent 80 hours in our rehearsal space. Now that the show is over, I have a bit more time on my hands to catch up with work, catch up with friends, and catch my breath in this city that is both strange and beautiful.
My new obsession is ginger tea.
<3
After a performance, you remember the feel of the stage, the lights, and the few faces in the audience you picked out. You know you did the show, like you did in rehearsal, but differently, because the energy of a room is so different when people fill the seats. But you don't remember the little moments of being on stage itself, actually saying the words, doing the actions.
I think that connects to theater as a medium - it lives in memory, in impression, and that can't just apply to the witness, because theater is connected to community.
It also has to do with adrenaline. Which was running pretty high the other night.
RealAD was such an amazing experience. I became really close with people I barely knew at the beginning of the summer, confronted my aversion to improv, remembered that trust should come before assumed distrust, worked on my writing, and helped to build a show with an amazing group of collaborators. A show that I truly believe made a difference. Even if just for one person, (though I think it was many many more than that), it was worth it. It made me a stronger, more articulate, and more caring person. I am so thankful for that.
Anyways. In the last two weeks I spent 80 hours in our rehearsal space. Now that the show is over, I have a bit more time on my hands to catch up with work, catch up with friends, and catch my breath in this city that is both strange and beautiful.
I forgot that when you get mail here, you really shouldn't open it at DTC, because you are more homesick than you realize.
My new obsession is ginger tea.
<3
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