Thoughts on acting

I'm in a play. It's interesting. I like it a lot only because I like pretending to be someone else, and I like using that excuse to do whatever I feel like. It's just like make-believe. And you're playing with someone else that believes in the same thing. But that's where, I've found, things can get complicated.

I remember when I was reading that book by Tina Fey, she wrote about improv and how it's all about your partner on stage. And clearly I have not much experience acting at all (this is my first play if you don't count when I was a flying monkey/munchkin in my summer camp's production of Wizard of Oz... though note I did get casted in TWO roles...also, I remember in that play someone dropped the crystal ball and it shattered everywhere, and someone else stepped on the lion's tail while he was walking and it ripped his costume. Neither of those people were me thank you very much).. but.. where was I? Oh right, it's just so bizarre to depend so much on someone else in regards to how you're supposed to act. You have ideas but you can't do whatever you want, you need to build off of what the other person gives you. For example, in this play, there are two characters. The daughter (me) and the mother, and the relationship between these two characters is integral to the play, obviously, but if you can't get there with whoever you're on stage with, it's impossible to make it believable. You're so dependent on the other person and it's so hard, you can't get past it.

Bizarre. Anyway, production's Saturday. Wish me luck! It's an original play by the director and it's honestly beautiful. I hope we do it justice.