Thinking about Wednesday's acting

Wednesday was SO much better than Tuesday. I was so happy to get my Sly lines done. I chugged some Mountain Dew, as to provide Sly with his energy. But we also did that really fun exercise of walking around the room and being made to stop and speak our one line. I thought that was great! What really struck me was how willing we all were to do it, because less than ten days ago, when we first starting the acting class, I don’t think we’d have been able to do that. For me, I know I was so much in my shell the first two or three days that I couldn’t have done all that walking and yelling and whispering, acting like a flighty teenage girl while saying, “All life is silliness, when to live is a torment.” I can definitely see using that in a class, but only in a class that I’m already familiar with, a class that knows me as a teacher and knows it’s OK to be silly and get into it.

I was intrigued, too, to hear the excitement of the actors when Othello came up. What’s up actors, why so much love for Othello?