I feel a rush of adrenaline. My pulse races out of excitement and ecstasy, not nervousness. I am not myself, and I love it. I love auditioning. I love rehearsing, costuming, memorizing lines, blocking, stepping out on the stage opening night, bowing for curtain call, meeting the audience. I love acting. I live to do it, and it defines me. In college, I hope to pursue theatre as a major and develop my skills, eventually making it into a career. And I will approach all the challenges of college as an actor does by being as dedicated to my studies as I am to my shows and displaying my passion for theatre and education.
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I had to see him as Mortimer through Elaine’s perspective and fall in love with him in that light instead of seeing him as Tyler through my own eyes. When rehearsals moved from the fine arts room to the stage where the set was fully constructed, we began dress rehearsals. The first time that I wore my costume, I was fully Elaine. Alyssa Masula never existed and Elaine Harper was passionate and emotional and enamored. I stopped delivering my lines as if trying to recall them from memory and started speaking through instinct as if it was the first time that the words were exiting my mouth. I paced across the stage, turned, saw Mortimer, ran into his arms, kissed him. For the first time, the choreographed action didn’t feel forced or awkward; it felt natural. “Arsenic and Old Lace,” Act 1, Scene 2, : the moment that I defined acting for myself. I developed my character and morphed my own personality with hers thus creating the person that my director envisioned and that I loved. This experience shaped me to see that there are situations in life that are out of my control and that I have to learn to adapt. It also changed me as an actor. For the first time, I became my character and was able to identify what acting meant to
The dictionary defines “acting” as "the art of performing in plays and like productions while taking on the persona of another …show more content…
I had to see him as Mortimer through Elaine’s perspective and fall in love with him in that light instead of seeing him as Tyler through my own eyes. When rehearsals moved from the fine arts room to the stage where the set was fully constructed, we began dress rehearsals. The first time that I wore my costume, I was fully Elaine. Alyssa Masula never existed and Elaine Harper was passionate and emotional and enamored. I stopped delivering my lines as if trying to recall them from memory and started speaking through instinct as if it was the first time that the words were exiting my mouth. I paced across the stage, turned, saw Mortimer, ran into his arms, kissed him. For the first time, the choreographed action didn’t feel forced or awkward; it felt natural. “Arsenic and Old Lace,” Act 1, Scene 2, : the moment that I defined acting for myself. I developed my character and morphed my own personality with hers thus creating the person that my director envisioned and that I loved. This experience shaped me to see that there are situations in life that are out of my control and that I have to learn to adapt. It also changed me as an actor. For the first time, I became my character and was able to identify what acting meant to