Roles

Helen- (singing) "Why did you send me so far and so lonely/ Up where the moor's spread and grey rocks are piled/ Men are hard hearted and kind angels only/ Watch o'er the steps of the poor orphan child - my feet they are sore and my limbs they are weary/ Long is the way and the mountains are wild/ Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary/ Over the path of the poor orphan child. "

Amy- " A beautiful man, don't you think. Such a pretty little mouth. And a nice nose. That's my idea of charming."

Hannah- " Not you. I'm feared you might have some ill plans, that bring you about folks' houses at this time o' night. If you have any followers - housebreakers and such - tell them we have a gentleman, and dogs, and guns."

I feel like that's a good overview of all my characters. Helen is the one that I wanted ever since I found out which play we were doing, and it's the biggest role I have. I like the others, but not nearly as much. I'm super excited!

Jane

     My drama class is doing Jane Eyre! I'm so excited! I mean, would you all please just read that quote... and then reread it... and then again because it's beautiful and I love it. I can't wait to be able to do this. It's such a sweet play, but at the same time it's scary and hard and deep. I'll keep you all updated when I find out my part tomorrow.

Alice in Wonderland

 For those of you who don't already know, the school that I'm taking a drama class at right now is doing to full school/family members/friends/random people production of a steampunk Alice in Wonderland. And my high school drama class is the production crew. And I get to do the makeup and hair! For a steampunk Alice in Wonderland! Life is amazing! So if anyone has any ideas on what I should do, please leave them in the comments! Thanks <3

Remember

     I'm in an acting post sort of a mood again today, please forgive me...
     There are some characters that you aren't going to be in a hurry to forget, and that you might remember for years. I have some like that. Two years ago I was Adrianna in Comedy of Errors. It was the largest role I'd had up to that point and it was on an actual stage in an actual theater. And even though I wasn't nearly as good then as I am now, I was better than I had ever been before. That character has really stuck with me, and even though I would never want to act like I did now, I loved that part and it's stuck with me.
     But it's even better when other people remember your character. Two years in a row I played a character named Snickerdoodle in a play that my local librarian wrote, Cowgirl Cookie and the Case of the Missing Chocolate Chips. I don't count that among my favorite roles. I mean, it was fun, but there wasn't any blocking or anything, it was mostly just a read through without scripts :) I had a ton of fun with the play, and with my friends in the cast, but I probably wouldn't remember the part very well at all if it wasn't for the audience.
     My hometown is super small, and mostly made up of people that are 60+ and have the time to come to a play. And the town is so small that the Cowgirl Cookie plays are the only plays up here. So I still have random people, two years later that will recognize me at the library or somewhere and talk about how they came to see the play. It's amazing!
     That's what I want. I like remembering my own character and having amazing memories with that one, but I like it better when someone else remembers my character enough to tell me I did a good job, because means my performance was either good enough or different enough for people to remember.
      For my acting readers, which one do you like better, when you remember or when they do? And for my non acting readers, what makes you remember an actor when you see a play?

Some Charactors

     "One day the people that didn't believe in you will tell everyone how they met you" - Johnny Depp

     This year I was a ranch hand in a play. It was a pretty small part, I didn't have many lines. I mostly just got it because I was doing two plays with the same director and in one she gave me a lead so I got a small part in the second one. She was my least favorite character reading the script, and one that I thought I couldn't do much with.
     Up until the very last rehearsal we were awful. The three people that I was in the scenes with didn't know their lines and they kept making me mess up by skipping ahead or something, so I was awful too. Then the director added three more people into our scenes and we had to re-block all of them two days before the show went onstage. The director came backstage after the last dress rehearsal looking disturbed. She told the three of us, trying to be kind but failing miserably,
     "Those scenes are the worst in the entire play. The audience is going to feel sorry for you."
     Gosh, thanks a lot.
     It was awful. I was super scared that I was going to go back to being a horrible actress when I had finally started to get better. But the director let us practice one more time, just us. We went over it again, getting a little bit better every time. Finally one of the other actors had the idea to act how we do offstage onstage and see how that worked.
    This cast was a-ma-zing and so we got super crazy offstage. It's honestly a miracle that we never missed a cue and always got on stage on time. We had our own dance that basically consisted of standing in a circle and shuffling back and forth. We hit each other over the head with stick horses. It was epic.
     And then we were great the first show if I do say so myself and I do. The second show we dipped back down a little bit, but we were back on for the third play. I had many people specifically tell me how much they loved my character in that play even though I was the lead in the second.
     That's no one of my favorite characters I've played, and not just because I think that that was one of the best job's I've ever done (which isn't saying much lol) and because it was a fun part, but because I had to work so hard to do a good job. And well I was working that hard I really had to go deep into my character. 
     A couple weeks later we were at church and they read the story of the shepherds that saw the angels. My ranch hand character was supposed to be one of the shepherds. I got deeper into that part of the Christmas story than anything else, because I got so deeply into my character and that character became part of myself, and I became her, even if it was only for a couple of months. I was so deep that I can still relate to her.
     Some people don't get why I love acting so much. People will say that it's cute that I'm in plays at my school, and my even people that also like acting sometimes don't get it (None of this following  applies to anyone reading my blog!) I know people that like acting because they get to be onstage in front of people. They want to be the center off attention and that's how they get that, and that's totally fine! But those people will never get the wonder of being someone else. Have you ever wished that you didn't have to deal with one stress or another? I want that all the time. But well I'm myself, I can't do that. When I'm onstage I don't care anymore, because I get the chance to be someone else. That person that I'm professing my undying love for? I hate him. My best friend? We barely even speak to each other offstage. But none of that matters.
     You do have to put some of yourself in of course. You can't just create feelings from nowhere. if your character is sad, that sadness has to come from somewhere inside yourself. You begin to become someone else though in the part where say, you character's mother has just died. Your mom is currently in perfect health, never been better. But you have been really sad at some point in your life. So you take the memory of that sadness and bring it to your character's loosing her mother. But that character still is not totally you. She's someone else. Someone that you now are.

WOW! Congrats if you made it through all that! If you're not an actor, double points!

Happy Birthday Emma!!!!!!

                                    
Happy birthday bestie! I've had six great years with you now, and in those six years, some really totally random epic things have happened. We've written a book together, and it's awesome.    Harry Potter Tripped over an Invisible Bunny and other stories about how totally smooth it is possible to be is one of the best books ever written, and Jason and the Argonerds is going to be one too! I have such great memories of sleepovers, staying up until midnight or later to finish a story

We've both turned bright red after spending a night outside. I still have no idea what happened there. Emily was fine! How come we both looked like tomatoes?

We've planned many, many trips, but only gotten to take one, and that one was epic. Sopping wet, sliding down the slide into the sand, then back into the pool. Volleyball where we kept hitting the net with half the staff at the campground coming out to make fun of us! Passing a notebook up and down between the bunks to write a story in our epic book, and dropping the “flashlight” aka my Ipod. Ringing a giant bell so many times we irritate everyone in the fort. We have to take another trip this summer, if not spring break.

Our nails are totally crazy. Remember those chalkboard nails from a few years ago? And the totally crazy, all out random ones from when we first met?

We've watched your little brother eat his shoes.

We've obsessed together over Harry Potter, Jason of the Argonerds, and Voldemort. We've watched Harry Potter make puppets eat each other, you've come to my plays just so you can see the “other Voldemort” We've stayed up laughing because of something funny that may someday happen between Finnick Odair and me and figured out that Harry Potter is Harry Potter, even though we were never supposed to know. And you're the only other person that will understand and find it hilarious as I do that Harry Potter and Voldemort are friends.

We have many secret languages, including the doodle language that we make well croshnitting-a-doodle. And yes, that makes total sense to both of us. It was super fun walking around Thursday Classes that one day and confusing everyone by repeating that we were “best fries and sane sand that take puctures with invisible rabbits”

You're probably the friend that I've been closest to for the longest. I can stay up until midnight or 1am telling you random things, such as Percy Jackson characters that start with each letter of the alphabet. I love it!

You're sooooo pretty! Sure, we can take puctures together at the museum and talk about how ugly we are, and how there's no hope for us, but you're really gorgeous. You're also a great author! I love writing critique with you, and reading your books! Can't wait to read Alice!

And we've gone through a lot of changes together. All my friends would listen to me and sympathies when I had to leave Thursday Classes, but you're the only one who really understood and got it, because you were going through the same thing! I swear, almost everything that's happened to me has happened to you at some time, if not the same time, and me with you. Sure, not everything. But a lot. We both switched to taking classes at a public school at the same time, we both left Co-op around the same time, we both met Harry Potter and Jason of the Argonerds  around the same time, we both are going through trying to make big choices about our lives at the same time. I've been able to sit out on your front porch and talk about college and the future with you because you understand, and that's wonderful.

I love you so much!Thank you for being my friend. I'm so blessed to have you, and I wouldn't change this for the world.

The future is huge, and I know it holds a lot for both of us, and I know that both of our futures holds a lot of the other one. So pack up now darling, because we're going to Paris! XOXOXO

Better than you

     Happy New Year everyone! so, last year (aka, yesterday) I've noticed more and more people constantly having to one up everyone, constantly having to be better than everyone else. I say I like blue, and they suddenly feel the great urge to tell me about their blue shoes that I don't have, and their blue shirt... I'm sure that everyone know someone like this, and even occasionally feel the urge to do that too, because you have to be better than everyone else to be loved right? You have to do better than them on everything.
     That's not true. You are you, and you are wonderful, even if you don't have the blue shoes and the blue shirt. And even if you do, constantly making yourself better than everyone who loves you isn't the best idea. Everyone needs their chance to have something and be able to tell everyone that their favorite color is blue without felling hurt afterwards by someone trying to make themselves better than them.
     You are one of God's perfect creations, and he loves you. I love you. You are surrounded by people who love you. So remember that this year and let 2016 be the year you are yourself.