King Lear Monologue

I have been in two of Brookline High’s Shakespeare production, I did King Lear my junior year and Julius Caesar my senior year. Being apart of these plays have taught me many things about working with a group of people; commitment, diligence and most of all passion. When I did King Lear it was my first big theater activity that I had done. It was intense and required me to be completely focused on my role which was a street musician. Now, I thought since I had a small and lousy role it would be no problem and that I could put half of my energy in and focus on other things I thought were important. When I would play my music it would be either out of tune, just bad or I didn’t know the song. This was very difficult for me and my director had to talk to me about it. She questioned why I even auditioned and what purpose I had for coming to rehearsal if I wasn’t trying. I found what she said to me was hurtful because I thought I was already trying. Then one day I was in rehearsal practicing and my director walked in to check on me. I began to tell her about my progress but then stopped me and she told me …show more content…
My director never talked to me about it again or to check on my progress. It wasn’t until the second to last performance that I felt something. There was a feeling where everything made sense. Just because I wasn’t a actor in the show didn’t mean I knew nothing about what was going on. Everybody knew their roles in and out, story, and I like all the rest were a cog in this big and grand clock. And it struck me. I had realized what I had done wrong the whole time. This production, this story, this commitment I had signed up for would not be the same without me. I had the music. I filled the cracks nobody but I could. I was just as important to this production as anyone else. It takes passion to do something like this, I said to myself. From there on out I gave everything I had in