The laramie project - after all

We performed the play twice: on the night of Thursday and on the night of Friday. The first night, the play did not go as expected. We skip three scenes of the play, but after asking the audience afterwards, I didn't hear anybody saying that they actually noticed something was wrong with the play.

The night of Friday was much better. I, myself, could feel that there was more energy on-stage. All the ensemble was feeling the mood of the scenes and following the rhythm.

After the performance, we received very good comments from the audience. I heard somebody say they liked this play even more than the movie! Somebody else said that they were really impressed that, regardless the large size of the ensemble, the play could keep their attention, somebody else, a teacher who has been on campus a long time, said that it was one of the best productions she had seen on school. We were all very happy with the compliments, and we managed to do this in 10 days! It was really a combination of the big motivation of the ensemble and excellent leadership skills of our teacher.

However, every time they said all these good things about the play, the very first thing is to feel very very motivated and eager to make the next production even better; but after it feels like all these compliments are going to something they do no longer exists. It's like, we produced the play but, that's it. It's done. I didn't feel this kind of attachment to commedia dell'arte but it gives me a little bit of nostalgia knowing that the whole thing is done and... it's not like an essay, that you have it there and you can look back at it if you want to. It's difficult to describe why but it makes you feel a little bit of nostalgia.

Because of this, I realize how an actor can develop a personal relationship with the character, and it is something that a professional actor should take care of, to learn how to make a clear separation one's own personality from the character.

Here are some pictures from the performance: