fooled or foiled...or NEITHER.

so, I'm finally finished with the play!!!

It's a relief, and also slightly depressing... so...I assumed the role of 'Isabella' in a theatrical production called "The Deceived," written by the 'Intronati di Siena' which is Italian for 'the Dazed of Siena. Its a comedy written in the 1520s, right before women were allowed to participate in theatrical productions. It is also said to have inspired Shakespeare's play, 'the Twelth Night.'

Any who, I participated in about a scene and a half (for the rest of the play I was like an imaginary creature, I was mentioned doing something more than I actually appeared in person)...it wasn't too big of a part, but apparently my main scene was crucial because I must have been told to do it at least a million times.

Now that I reflect, I'm glad my role was on the smaller side because I'm kind of busy; I most definitely believed that I would've went into cardiac arrest having a plays worth of lines. It wasn't too hard to remember...but acting is a lot harder than I recall (that is, recalling my last acting experience which was in the 5th grade...O_o).

Here is the only picture I have....it's me after one of our five shows, after I'm out of costume of course...

The Director, who was also the advisor/professor/overseer, said that we must always remember that theater is ephemeral, short-lived, and that is how it is intended to be.

So 'the Deceived,' kind of happened, lasted a little while, then ended...and that made it seem simple, yet while enduring rehearsals, meeting ridiculously different people who all came together to accomplish a common goal, memorizing lines, and learning that the sames jokes that were funny in the 1520s can be funny in today's day in age, was very complex.

Theatre then, is like a flower. It does everything it can to prepare for the day at which it blooms; it blossoms, and then its gone, but still lovely in memory.

Siamo degli attori.
Italian: We are actors.