Acting

[Lucy!]

I'm taking a drama class that is the highlight of my semester being that the rest of my classes, although they are English (my major and my favorite subject), are INCREDIBLY boring ( and I am pretty patient and open minded, but these classes are ridiculously boring). I always had a thing for drama, even though I must admit that I am shy in front of a crowd until I am completely comfortable- well anyway, yesterday in Acting, I felt that I did really well with the character I have permanently taken on. In yesterday's skit, I played roomate to my friend who plays a happy, giving motivational speaker who is a bulemic and I am a depressed, way too honest, way too blunt pyschology student whose mood is constantly fluctuating to incredible extremes and is really funny although she doesn't mean to be (I'm literally all over the place, which is not too far from my real self except I'm not mean to people and I'm not borderline insane). I already set my schedule for next semester but I am debating over whether I should eliminate an elective short story workshop class and take Acting 2 with the same professor and further my acting and see what stems from there. I only have 10 classes to take to graduate and one of them can be any elective....

Maybe I'll take theater in graduate school
I really love it

[Lightning Rod]

Lucy, you need to be in acting.

I know you have a knack for it. You are right about the fun level being vastly different between acting and english classes. But here's the deal. After you get the basic rudiments of English down (which you appear to have), you can learn the rest anywhere you are as long as you can have a book in your hand.

But theater is a group effort. It's a cooperative affair. Nobody can do it on their own. The things you learn and experience by being involved in a theater production are amazing and wonderful. It's a majic thing to combine your talents and efforts with others for a common goal--the show.

My theater experiences are some of the dearest of my life.

Write short stories on your own. Get the roar of the greasepaint and the smell of the crowd.

[WIREMAN]

.....I say it sounds like the acting class and the interaction are what you really would like to do Lucy, I tell ya this this wired man went around for 43 years holding back thinking he was shy to get up on stage infront of a group, and when I finally did in 1996..."BOOM"....I had a rush of adrenaline so huge i don't think I'll ever come down again, fact is I love it....life is funny, ya sometimes don't really know till ya give it a shot......wired mark......and by the way what's happening with our poetry group plan?????...I for one am still stoked about the idea..........

[judih]

definitely.
if the urge is there - fly with it.
This chance is shaking and shimmying for you.
Story writing is a thing that waits for opportunities like this. The more you do, the more you'll have to write about

Great good acting to you.
Theatre is the ultimate now.

judih

[Glorious Amok]

oh Lucy, that's INCREDIBLE!!! how brave of you! i cannot act, not a bit, not infront of a crowd.

after growing up on stage and in rehearsal halls all my life as a dancer, the performer in me stood up, tipped over the chair, dropped her top hat on the floor and walked out. i no longer have any desire whatsoever to be in any limelights. i prefer to haunt the backstage, and the rehearsal hall is still the place i feel most comfortable. it's the planning and dreaming and experimenting that most turns my crank.

but i bet you make a natural performer! with a smile like that? you must! so proud of you Lucy, the way that you blossom, revealing petal after more delicate inner petal. so many layers to a woman like you!

follow your bliss, choose whatever is the most madly you.