i may not currently be acting, but i will always be an actor.
::Written sitting outside the greenroom at DVC::
The ground outside the Greenroom is littered with cigarette butts where so many talented people spend so much of their days.
The telltale sign of an Actor?
You: Smoke too much;
Drink too much;
Or have Way too much sex.
(Perhaps a combination)
Also everything is a theatrical reference.
Someone’s in a pickle?
-The cast in your head starts to sing "A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox"
Perhaps someone is pissing you off? you either;
-Bite your thumb at them,
OR (be it more than one person,) it's
-A plague o' both their houses.
A light goes out in your kitchen and in your mind, you're changing the lamp in a source four.
A dimmer switch becomes your own personal light board.
Your stereo, Your sound board.
You even think in stage directions.
If you're on the phone and someone tells you that what you're looking for is "on the left" your immediate response is "Stage left or house left?"
If you're having a conversation with another Theatre Kid, you are both unconsciously quarter turned out to you imaginary audience.
You create back stories and motivations for every person you pass on the street based on how they're walking.
A solar eclipse is not an act of nature, but the shutter being closed on the giant spot light in the sky.
Clouds over the moon is a gobo over a giant Fernell.
And life is never real enough when you're off stage.
You willingly, and purposefully, drive an extra 45 minutes to go to the school with the better Theatre program.
And you NEVER spell Theatre with and "ER"
You can't remember what you had for breakfast this morning, but you remember ever role you've ever played, or show you worked on, how old you were and where you did it, and all the lines and blocking, even the ones that weren't yours.
And though you may never remember what you had for breakfast, what you wore yesterday, or where you put your lighter, No matter how many shows you do, you'll never forget any of them, or your lines, or blocking, or at exactly what part in that monologue Que 85, the thunder, was go, or exactly how that set change goes, or when that black out hits, or that no matter what happens, you Stay in character and KEEP GOING, because once you're on stage you are not You playing a Character, You Are That Person and that person's life isn't going to stop because a sound que is late, or the person they're talking to didn't say exactly what they expected, you deal with it and keeping going, because, life, and the show, must go on.
And last, but, Never, ever least...
You know you're a Theatre Person when
Life, is never real enough, unless you're on stage.
The ground outside the Greenroom is littered with cigarette butts where so many talented people spend so much of their days.
The telltale sign of an Actor?
You: Smoke too much;
Drink too much;
Or have Way too much sex.
(Perhaps a combination)
Also everything is a theatrical reference.
Someone’s in a pickle?
-The cast in your head starts to sing "A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox"
Perhaps someone is pissing you off? you either;
-Bite your thumb at them,
OR (be it more than one person,) it's
-A plague o' both their houses.
A light goes out in your kitchen and in your mind, you're changing the lamp in a source four.
A dimmer switch becomes your own personal light board.
Your stereo, Your sound board.
You even think in stage directions.
If you're on the phone and someone tells you that what you're looking for is "on the left" your immediate response is "Stage left or house left?"
If you're having a conversation with another Theatre Kid, you are both unconsciously quarter turned out to you imaginary audience.
You create back stories and motivations for every person you pass on the street based on how they're walking.
A solar eclipse is not an act of nature, but the shutter being closed on the giant spot light in the sky.
Clouds over the moon is a gobo over a giant Fernell.
And life is never real enough when you're off stage.
You willingly, and purposefully, drive an extra 45 minutes to go to the school with the better Theatre program.
And you NEVER spell Theatre with and "ER"
You can't remember what you had for breakfast this morning, but you remember ever role you've ever played, or show you worked on, how old you were and where you did it, and all the lines and blocking, even the ones that weren't yours.
And though you may never remember what you had for breakfast, what you wore yesterday, or where you put your lighter, No matter how many shows you do, you'll never forget any of them, or your lines, or blocking, or at exactly what part in that monologue Que 85, the thunder, was go, or exactly how that set change goes, or when that black out hits, or that no matter what happens, you Stay in character and KEEP GOING, because once you're on stage you are not You playing a Character, You Are That Person and that person's life isn't going to stop because a sound que is late, or the person they're talking to didn't say exactly what they expected, you deal with it and keeping going, because, life, and the show, must go on.
And last, but, Never, ever least...
You know you're a Theatre Person when
Life, is never real enough, unless you're on stage.