Rehearsal

[ghost_light]

I had most of an entry written about how busy our weekend was and all the work we've done in the crawlspace this weekend, but my phone helpfully ate it, leaving me room to write about rehearsal tonight.

 

Oh my Zod.

 

My Japaneses host sisters had an idiom where they would pat one hand over their heart and say "doki doki."  This was explained to us as everything from "I am  so excited I'm seeing where my favorite movie was shot I might die" to "I have very bad cramps", but the one that resonated was "My heart is very full."

 

That's all I can say about stepping into rehearsal tonight:  doki doki.

 

I have a deep passion for South African theatre and literature.  If I could go back to school for anything, career be damned, I would get my Masters in South African theatre.  I've had the topic of the thesis I'll never write  picked out for over 10 years. 

 

Syringa Tree is a one-woman show where she plays everyone in the life of a South African woman from her great-grand mother to her little brother, her black nanny to the nanny's daughter who is killed in Soweto.  I walked in more than halfway through the rehearsal process and I am not an outsider, I am a welcomed and valued member of the team.

 

Doki doki.

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Comments

[plumxxjam.livejournal.com]

Reading this entry made my heart smile and reminded me of why I miss doing theatre! :)

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I want to bury myself in South African stories again. Dive back in and devour stories until the juice runs down my chin.

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

Being included as a team member is a vital part of what happens in theatre. Some troupes seem to forget that without the backroom staff shows don't happen.

I like that Japanese saying 'my heart is full'. It sums up very succinctly a huge amount that sometimes we struggle with in English. Particularly when conflicting emotions are involved.

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

That's great, congrats!

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Yay!