First Glimpse

Today we finally began rehearsal for our Children's Theater piece, Heads or Tales. It was only then that we realized "opening day" would be in about a little less than four weeks. FOUR WEEKS! In that mentality, we zipped on along, assigning lines to be memorized by next Monday. Though I do quite enjoy the somewhat main character role of T.J., an uninspired student, there are quite a bit of lines to memorize. As we began to actually block the show, I had to be reminded by my teacher of the fact that it was a children's theater piece. This means that actors should be overly exaggerated so that young children are able to get the point of these stock characters. It's almost as if we were all to have masks on while performing the show, considering that we must make each and every movement larger than life. In order to keep their short attention spans, we as actors must transform the story into something fantastic. Costuming will be handled this time by fellow IBer, Kimberly Siegel, while Jenny Kim helps with music. It will be especially difficult to include anything too technical in the piece since there are only five students in the class, who are all actors in the show, which leaves just my teacher to handle the music and video-taping. Oy!