It's 2011. It's 2011, I am 23 years old, and I am in my second year of graduate school for acting. Midway through graduate school really. Chipping steadily away at my Masters of Fine Arts. I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me obscenely proud. It does. I'm feeling really great about my work. I can feel myself learning so much and gaining new insights everyday about acting and about life.
It's a new year, and time for a new play.
Last night we began rehearsals for Ohio University's production of Moliere's The Misanthrope. I'll be playing Celimene, the uncontrollably coquettish antiheroine who causes the main character, Alceste, so much grief. In the most recent production of The Misanthrope in London Keira Knightly played Celimene.
Although the show is restoration comedy the OU design department is wildly spicing things up. Setting the play in the world of lavish excess among French aristocracy before the revolution, the set and the actors will be dressed to the nines. Tall wigs, corsets, big skirts, and everything with a touch of modern rockstar flair.
Characters will be dancing, singing, seducing, making enormous entrances. We're so excited. The play is going to be eye-candy with loads of laughs and surprises!
It's time to get to work.
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