I made my stage debut last Friday night, lol. It was our school play 'War Talks...' written by our drama teacher. It was pretty fun though. I was amazed that I didn't get nervous at all. I'm normally a person that suffers dramatically from nerves. I remember in debating, people were convinceed that I had Parkisons disease because I shook so much. Our scenes went okay. On the first night we stuffed up 'Loss of Innocene'. Well, I stuffed up Loss Of Innocence. I skipped this uge bit because I said the wrong line. From then on we sort of had to improvise. WE re-arranged the script and added one or two lines to make everything fit. It worked pretty well, considering. None of the audience relised what we had done and the story line remained the same. The next scene that I was in that stuffed up was the following day (Saturday matinee) One of the girls forgot her line. As in, she completely and utterly forgot it!!! I would have come up with some improv but I couldn't because I was the last one to speak and if I did it would have looked so bad. so we were just there standing on stage for a while doing nothing. Then Hannah, the girl who forgot her line, just said something else and we quickly ended the scene. It was a disaster!(but immensely amusing).
Then, on the closing night, someone stuffed up Loss Of Innocence again (but not me this time!!!!) There was this gap (not big enough for the audience to notice though) and when I relised that one of the other girls wasn't goiong to say her line I came in with it for her. Which worked okay till Amelia said the wrong line... and then so forth so forth. I had to do a lot of improv lines but still, it all workied well. The audience found the scence very funny (the acutal scene, not our mistakes) and didn't pick up that we had stuffed up, so it all worked well.
There's so much to write about from the last three days. Such as how Mallory (a girl who I'm not really friends with) had a complete spastic about how someone didn't get this minor prop for her and she was left on stage without her chair. It didn't affect her scene at all, but when she came off she was screaming, and crying and swearing and yelling and everything else you could think of. Seriously, she was threatening to murder the props boy! I couldn't beleive it, I mean, everyone had some stuff-ups with props in their scenes. For example, in one of mine we had this huge black box accidently left on stage, right smack bang in the middle at the front. In the same scene they also forgot to turn the dress-dummy round the right way so it had it's back to the audience. Quite amusing.
Mallory ended up running away, refusing to go back on stage (which was fine cause she didn't actually have any more parts) and then when her friends tried to comfort her she ran right out to the dams at our school. It was pitch black so we couldn't do anything plus we had to go back on stage. She ended up beiong alright though. I teacher delt with it really well.
What annoyed me though was that most people ended up commending her as a way of comforting her. You know, they'de say things such as "Oh, yeah, and Mallory coped really well with any stuff-ups" or they'd bag out the porps guy, who didn't do anything wrong. What she really desevered was someone having a good scream at her and putting her back into her place.
Anyway, I'll tell you more later!