Second Time's a Charm?

So today was our second time performing Heads & Tales for the youngings. Ironically, though, instead of doing amazingly better than our previous performance, I felt as though today's performance may have suffered a bit. This may have simply resulted from the general mood the entire cast was in, one of doom and depression as we were all about to fail an impending test. In addition to such woes, one of our cast members was caught with the sniffles. So all in all, enthusiasm somewhat suffered as we weren't as anxious for performing as we were the last time. That could just be because it was our first for many things. But still, I've learned that no matter what may be going on backstage, we must all leave our worries and burdens behind and completely embrace our characters on stage. I guess that's just the simple beauty in theatre, that you can leave everything behind and become someone completely not yourself, even if it's only for a few minutes in front of those lights. What's even more ironic is that our teacher thought we performed much better than last week. Who knows? The children at Westhoff, the elementary school we performed for, were much more well-behaved, meaning quiet and polite children the entire performance. For that reason, there wasn't much audience participatio and sort of dragged the performance on, but what can you do. So here's to our second and final performance of Heads & Tales! It was a charm, wasn't it...