1. Posted by kari [website] on Friday, Aug 1, 2008 1:05 AM (EST):
That would have made a great picture. Did you take one?
A Stage I’m Going Through
As if my life needs more drama.
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:14 PM
This week I’m holding a Drama Camp here at the house. Never mind that I have no theatrical experience, I happen to be one of the only mothers among our circle of friends who is not currently pregnant, postpartum, or nursing. I get the job.
Dozens of children arrive every day for play practice and I am proud to say we are making decent progress. I think I have finally convinced our 13-year-old Cyrano de Bergerac, for example, to use the word “love” when it appears in his lines instead of substituting “like” out of adolescent embarrassment. And I think I have succeeded in getting our Monsieur Montfleury to refrain from impromptu, on stage swashbuckling.
See what I mean? Progress. This is the stuff we theater moms cling to.
So far, the whole experience has only cost me buckets of energy (I had no idea!), a hefty helping of time (this I was prepared for), and gallons of lemonade.
This afternoon, when our rehearsal was interrupted by a sudden thunderstorm, all of us rushed inside. Though we attempted to continue rehearsing the scene in the living room, the heat and humidity in addition to the cramped quarters quickly made us miserable.
“This is insufferable,” my amused husband noted when he entered the room.
It was.
I turned my students loose and they gathered under trees in the nearby woods. As rain poured down all around them, they rehearsed their lines and acted their parts. They waved arms wildly, shouted above the wind, and fell over themselves with laughter. Watching from an inside window, I had to admit—this right here is worth buckets and gallons. And then some.
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