Well, we've been back in Cedar City for a little over a week now, and although I'm missing the tour life of Park City, it's nice to have a much lighter rehearsal schedule. I am also working my normal on-campus job, which is suddenly so un-glamorous! ;)
The first day back we had a company barbecue with all the actors, directors, crew, and Board of Directors for NSF. I moved into company housing and met my roommate, Melissa Nield, who will be performing with my in I'm Not Rappaport, the other show I am cast in.
Speaking of Rappaport, we started rehearsals for that as well! My role is much smaller in this play, so the memorization and time spent at rehearsal is less. This is a play about two old men, one Jewish, one African American, sitting on a park bench in Central Park. Throughout the play, they face and discuss the many difficulties of aging. I play Laurie Douglas, a young artist who spends much of the first act perching up on the bridge working on my art, with no lines. In act two, when I finally speak, the two old men (and the audience) learn that along with being an artist, I am also an ex-druggie who has substantial debts owed to a terrifying drug dealer called The Cowboy that she can't pay back. He threatens to kill me if I don't get him the money, and the climax of the play is reached when the two old men try to rescue me from him.
Doesn't sound as funny or uplifting as my other role, does it?
The biggest challenge I think I'll face with this role, is creating a character without many lines of dialogue and also learning the patience of sitting onstage for a long period of time with nothing to do but sketch (which I'm not very good at, by the way.)
However, those are challenges I'm excited to go after! Playing this role against Catherine is very exciting as well as I've always wanted to try repertory theatre.
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