SWK78

hello, kennyg

I am in a community play "Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare, and I have the most lines, bout a hundred or so. I find energy is the hardest part of staying alive on stage. Anyhoo, I have a remedy that works for me. Before I go on stage, I tell myself who I am, what I'm doing, and what I have to accomplish. And when I get out there, I'm on the top of my game. The key that works for me, is that you just need to stay in character, and keep telling yourself you're this character, and not who you are, because if you dont believe it, the audience wont believe a lick of what you're doing up there on stage. If you need something extra to liven yourself up then here you go:

Take a portable CD player with you on performance day, and before the show, listen to your favorite music or music that will juicey up your mobility and snap some pazazz into your step, but dont get out of character. This is just a way to loosen up and highten up before the lights even go up. Once the show begins, toss the player to the side (not literally of course) and just focus. Dont focus on the audience, focus on the players on stage. Then when you go out, give it your all. Be your character. That's all you gotta remember. Be the character. Even when you're off-stage. It's important.

Some of my credits for the West Virginia Theatre East community theatre group include:

*ANGIE in "I'll be Home for Christmas"
*LYDIA in "Dreams of Broadway" (our director wrote it)
-inside that play, I played *QUEEN TITANIA in a sequence from William Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream"
Played character *GOODY KNIGHT in a dinner theatre
NOW::: *DON PEDRO in "Much Ado About Nothing"

have you done anything else besides this play? tell me how it goes, OK?
our shows are this weekend...on 31st, 1st, and 2nd....
Luck to you, kennyg!!!!

SWK78