Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Theatre

"You know that feeling you get, when you see lovely folks that you used to work with (that you liked), or old friends that you have lost touch with (whom you enjoyed), and you get this deliriously giddy feeling in your soul?
And, just like that, you realize that you missed them, and you didn't even know it?"
(A quote from the lovely blog A Fanciful Twist.)

This is exactly how I felt when I started doing theatre again last month. I hadn't done any since Emma in 2008 (which seems like such a long time ago now) and only got vague wishings to do it again sometime... and then when I started doing it it was like oh my goodness I LOVE this I've missed it so much!!!

This month has been a whirlwind of theatre, and it just keeps getting more crazy and fun. We did two shows in a school, I spent 9 hours at the theatre one day, one week I was there 4 days out of 7 and the next week when I had three days in a row off I didn't know what to do with myself. I was playing piano for a musical for the first time, that was really fun (when people had nothing to do they would come over to the piano and ask to run songs, usually going really fast for fun :D ) and interesting because I was the musical director and had to direct the songs. It was fun but I really missed being backstage, and seeing them rehearse made me want to be acting more than playing the piano. On the last night I actually was in it, they needed someone for the Tinker who was just in the first scene and had no songs, so that was great. I did my last show on Monday night which I'm really really sad about :( but I'm going to be doing more stuff with the theatre in July and August so I'll see most of the cast again this summer. The cast for Thumbelina was awesome, they were all good actors and singers and there were a lot of super nice people. I hope I'll be able to act in a show this fall, and I have a feeling I'll be doing stuff with this theatre for years.

I've been too busy to write many poems though, sadly. It's the first month since 2007 when I haven't written at least 4... maybe I'll get a burst of inspiration this week and write a bunch :D This is the only real one I've written, which I just wrote this moment!

When I go to bed lately
I listen to music
till it calms my mind and my limbs are immobile
soothed into a coma-state
my thoughts drop away
Until this month I'd forgotten what
it feels like to lay awake
busily thinking
for hours and hours and maybe
then sleeping
The ipod trick works
but I'd forgotten, too
how it feels to be so filled
with music and sounds and people and voices
that you never want to fall asleep
you just want to keep
reliving the day

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you had a lot of fun this week! Makes me miss those experiences. They're amazing. Your poem made me smile wistfully - and also reminded me of when I used to tell myself stories before falling asleep. Now my head is so full of the people I've seen and the things I've done during the day that I don't need the stories. I kind of miss them though... ;) Anyway, I hope you get to do more theater soon!

KeliaMegan said...

That was a really good week. Telling stories to yourself is always really fun :) I'm going to be doing some more in a week and a half, very excited for that :D