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Eriny, on 25 March 2010 - 09:49 AM, said:

Well, well! What a theater!

was long time ago. Now it's

It would be easier if that would be some other guy I would need to make out with. This is just too creepy lol

[Phantom]

magic, on 24 March 2010 - 12:44 PM, said:

I wanted to write a long post about what was going on but right now I am too stressed to write from the beginning cause that's nothing anymore.

Short story: a friend of mine who played in theatre main female role has gone to Turkey to study and won't come back till summer. And they asked to replace her. I first thought the festival is in middle of May, we all thought that so it's ok. But today we found out that we have to play after two weeks. And I don't event know all the text yet!!!

Short about festival: It's the main Latvia amateur festival called "Play of the Year" that will happen from 9th till 11th April. I am not sure where each day happens but I know we are playing 9th April in one of the biggest Latvia's theatre (and I mean professional theatre) which gives extra stress. I played there once and it's scary So all together: 2 weeks for the main female role who almost doesn't come off the stage and has about 5 dialog scenes, and I don't know all the texts yet and I don't have an outfit as well except for shoes.

Short about my feeling: I am stressed out cause normally there has to be 3 months to get into the role but I have to do that in 2 weeks probably just 5 rehearsals. So I am all shaking. I can't even learn the text cause of the stress cause it's just those 2 weeks in my head at the moment.

Today is my first rehearsal.

I need some pills from stress probably, valerian.

So excuse me if I will be overstressed for 2 weeks. You know the reason.

Did I tell I am shaking?

I see

this sounds very interesting and exciting

and a little scary too, but I am certain you'll do great

just keep the faith

and just an advice: don't drink valerian it helps to get away from the stress, but it doesn't help to concentrate and to memorize

and you'll need concentration and good memory in order to learn your text

just drink some tea and chamomile, work hard, and you'll do great

oh, and, break a leg!

[magic]

Yes, I've heard that about valerian. I used it for final exams. My mouth was so dry.

So far for the past 2 days I wasn't doing anything but trying to learn text so I would have already some base in rehearsals. Now I have rehearsals every day, except Saturdays. The premier for me will be in 5th April, dress rehearsal, I don't know with audience or without so by then I already need to know everything.

Already in first rehearsals (I had 2 so far) director said I am doing very great and I have very good sense of rhythm so that calms me down a little

Today my partner/ onstage bf, came to rehearsal drunk he was so funny talking all the time. Talking everything but his text

[magic]

If somebody's interested here's summary about the play

It's Spanish play written by Antonio Buero Vallejo "In The Burning Darkness"

It all happens in school for blind ppl. These blind young ppl are happy and have accepted their blindness. Then some day some new student, Ignasio, appears who is miserable with blindness and does not accept his destiny. He sees everything in dark. There's a girl named Huana (me) who has a bf, Karloss. Huana is very happy in general and she loves everybody and the world in general and she thinks everything is shiny, good and pure. There's another couple Elisa and Migelito. Elisa and Huana is best friends. They 4 are kind a the main group in the class. After a while everybody in school seems to start to follow Ignasio in his depression, students are not that happy anymore and they are not studying that good anymore. Elisa and Migelito breaks up. Karloss and Ignasio has some kind of fight cause Karloss refuse Ignasio to gather and control all students in school. Huana is defending Ignasio all the time, she says ppl need to understand him and be patient with him and don't fight with him but treat him with care and love. She falls in love with him without even realizing it and Karloss kind a sense that. Ignasio finds out about Huana's feelings and tells Huana he loves her cause she's the first person who fell in love with him the way he is without trying to change him, she's that someone he was looking for. Huana refuse him with few words but not with actions, she doesn't stop him from kissing her.

In the end Karloss kills Ignasio, for the reason to save his love. Huana comes back to Karloss telling she's so sorry and she only wanted everything good and she never stopped loving him. Karloss forgives her. Elisa and Migelito also gets together.

That's not all. The only person in school who can see was some teacher who is also secretly in love in Karloss. She was the only seeing from a window how Karloss kills Ignasio but she doesn't tell everyone. She tells Karloss she knows, that she saw him killing Ignasio and she doesn't plan to tell anyone by kind a trying to drop a hint of them becoming lovers lol Karloss refuses her. The play ends by teacher telling that nothing is over yet and Karloss hasn't won yet.

This is some crazy story

[Phantom]

magic, on 25 March 2010 - 10:02 PM, said:

Yes, I've heard that about valerian. I used it for final exams. My mouth was so dry.

So far for the past 2 days I wasn't doing anything but trying to learn text so I would have already some base in rehearsals. Now I have rehearsals every day, except Saturdays. The premier for me will be in 5th April, dress rehearsal, I don't know with audience or without so by then I already need to know everything.

Already in first rehearsals (I had 2 so far) director said I am doing very great and I have very good sense of rhythm so that calms me down a little

Today my partner/ onstage bf, came to rehearsal drunk he was so funny talking all the time. Talking everything but his text

yes, I am also sure that you'll do very well

he came drunk? lol

magic, on 25 March 2010 - 10:29 PM, said:

This is some crazy story

yes, this is indeed a crazy story lol

[Sharon007]

Good luck with the theatre Mag. Sound like you will need it. I don't like suffering from stress and I often get headaches with it. Try your best to relax after the rehearsals if you can. I have heard that Chamomile herbal tea is very good for relief from stress . BTW it is a crazy story

[magic]

Sharon007, on 26 March 2010 - 08:11 PM, said:

Good luck with the theatre Mag.

Don't wish me good luck don't you remember? lol

[magic]

Make out scene wasn't that bad lol We rehearsed it for the first time today. Director said he will sign a document to my partner's wife and to my bf about "this is only acting" thing

My bf's cousin made fun of it. "I bet you need to practise that scene a lot. And sometimes also call home and tell you have to stay over night cause you need to rehearse sooooooo much" lol

In general, it's going well. I have learned my texts, sometimes I mix up them though lol But it's already big that I've learned all my texts in 5 days. Now I need to make all of that to hold stronger inside of me so I wouldn't mix up during the play. Rehearsals during the next 3 maybe 4 days.

[Phantom]

magic, on 28 March 2010 - 07:40 PM, said:

In general, it's going well. I have learned my texts, sometimes I mix up them though lol But it's already big that I've learned all my texts in 5 days.

indeed, that was fast

it seems you're a quick learner

[magic]

Phantom, on 28 March 2010 - 07:56 PM, said:

indeed, that was fast

it seems you're a quick learner

If I do it day and night then that's not surprise lol But ppl in theatre are impressed

[magic]

Remember I told about my feelings after Blood Wedding? I am starting to get the same feelings. If it's like that after rehearsals then it will be a lot after the play. I hate this feeling. Makes me wanna listen depressive, slow and sad music

[BabyGirl]

magic, on 29 March 2010 - 11:31 PM, said:

Remember I told about my feelings after Blood Wedding? I am starting to get the same feelings. If it's like that after rehearsals then it will be a lot after the play. I hate this feeling. Makes me wanna listen depressive, slow and sad music

What kind of feelings did you have then?

[magic]

BabyGirl, on 30 March 2010 - 12:30 PM, said:

What kind of feelings did you have then?

Well you have seen Blood Wedding, right? I had these feelings of my role, like I love somebody (Leonardo), like I am still a Bride loving him but in the same time I am in reality and I know I am Lasma and I know I have these feelings to somebody who doesn't even exist and I hate that feeling. I don't know, it's not exactly love probably, but something like desire, lust, longing ... Feelings like I want to get somebody but I can't or shouldn't. And it's not for actors lol it's for their characters. So back then I understood how easy it is to mix up feelings to actors and their characters so that's why many partners become lovers in real life and then when they understand it's their characters they loved, they break up.

In general, it's hard to get away from your character after the play. I've read professional actors said before the play you have to dress into your character's coat and after the play you have to take it down and leave it in your dressing room. And it's hard to do cause you put part of yourself in every role anyway.

I usually felt that for 3-4 days, max a week till it went away. I remember the last time I played Blood Wedding, I decided to get away from those feelings by reading a book, love story, to take that feelings away from me to the book, to concentrate for somebody's else love story and it worked very well. You know when you are full of passion and you don't know where to put it (not passion for sex though lol but for words and touches and feelings it gives to you) and you know my bf is not kind of guy of words and touches, he's just.... a guy lol Besides he doesn't understand how I feel after the play, you know he doesn't understand feelings in general. So one option is a book. Not a movie cause it lasts just 2 hours. But I read book for min 3 days and then forget about my feelings during that period.

Now while rehearsing this play, I already started to feel very similar emotions. I am already listening some sad, love songs that could be described as depressing but they are very beautiful songs (if you know Melanholiskais Valsis for example). Most of them are about love that you are looking for or that you have lost. Some of the words described how my character is feeling. And I am also into some Love Quotes that I am resisting to write in Draugiem.lv or in Facebook lol

Right now it's cause I have to prepare the role and texts for just 2 weeks so I am living together with the script and repeating texts all the time, before I go to sleep, in shower, when I am driving in public transport and in rehearsal it gives extra pressure that didn't happen in Blood Wedding cause Bride role I took slow, this one I take so fast and I think about it almost all the time, naturally. Cause I don't want to look stupid on the stage lol That's very crazy to learn role for such a less time! Sometimes I shake when I think about all those emotions like now when I'm writing down these feelings, but I am not sure if it's cause I am already scared of playing cause I don't feel ready so soon or it's cause of the emotions.

^ woa, that was a lot to write lol

Today I found out we'll be playing in 10th April 1.30pm, Dailes theatre small stage. Will you come?

[magic]

Two songs I am listening the most in past days. I love these both songs very much, always loved. You know when we are in some mood we listen these songs more, that described our mood. I wouldn't want to listen anything else that is not my mood.





Especially these words, there's a text in the play very similar to this one.

Es mīļoju tevi (Es mīlu Tevi) (I love you)
Par tū smaidu tovuos acīs, (Par to smaidu Tavās acīs) (For that smile in your eyes)
Par tovu rūku gluostu. (Par Tavu roku glāstu) (For your hand's stroke)
Par kotru vuordu teiktū. (Par katru teikto vārdu) (For every word that has been told)
Par tū, kas asmu es (Par to, kas es esmu) (For what I am)
Tik mirkli blokus stuovūt tev! (Ik mirkli blakus stāvot Tev) (Every moment standing near you)

[BabyGirl]

Hm... do you wanna hear what I will say? Or you`d like me to "undress" you in private?

magic, on 30 March 2010 - 01:23 PM, said:

Today I found out we'll be playing in 10th April 1.30pm, Dailes theatre small stage. Will you come?

Yes, I will be glad to come!

[magic]

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Hm... do you wanna hear what I will say? Or you`d like me to "undress" you in private?

That depends on if it's very private lol

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Yes, I will be glad to come!

Great!Nice to know somebody will support me and will hold fingers for me

p.s. be back after about 2-3 hours. Rehearsal again

[BabyGirl]

magic, on 30 March 2010 - 02:40 PM, said:

That depends on if it's very private lol

Your bf will be jealous on me about privacy. Remember he used to call me "that guy" or something like that

Edited by BabyGirl, 30 March 2010 - 02:53 PM.

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BabyGirl, on 30 March 2010 - 02:52 PM, said:

Your bf will be jealous on me about privacy. Remember he used to call me "that guy" or something like that

If you remember then my mom also used to say "Hey, some guy is calling you. Pick up the phone"

I can lose privacy with ppl my bf likes Hmm, I probably should ask him for the full list It was with the guy in Blood Wedding, it is also with the guy in In The Burning Darkness and my bf also likes you so I can lose privacy with you as well

[BabyGirl]

magic, on 30 March 2010 - 07:21 PM, said:

If you remember then my mom also used to say "Hey, some guy is calling you. Pick up the phone"

I can lose privacy with ppl my bf likes Hmm, I probably should ask him for the full list It was with the guy in Blood Wedding, it is also with the guy in In The Burning Darkness and my bf also likes you so I can lose privacy with you as well

"Dirty Lasma"?!

[Phantom]

magic, on 30 March 2010 - 01:23 PM, said:

Today I found out we'll be playing in 10th April 1.30pm, Dailes theatre small stage. Will you come?

break a leg tomorrow, Lasma