Music: Miranda and Ferdiand's theme from The Tempest show soundtrac
Just like last summer, I was involved with a Shakespeare Festival program at Tulane University. There are main stage performances with paid actors and then the intern performance that we pay to put on. It's a two week long rehearsal program and then another week for performances. This year, we put on The Tempest, a romance and Shakespeare's last play. Last week we had performances and they went very well. I was cast as Ariel, Prospero's spirit. This role was very physically demanding; Ariel spends maybe 99% of the play crouching down and walking like that too. You can see how my knees must've felt and are still feeling. But even though I was in pain, I still had fun playing this role. It is a very different character from what I usually get cast as (mothers and/or naive young women (not that those roles weren't fun too)). I was inhuman. How many times as an actor are you going to plan an inhuman? almost never. I also had to sing by myself in front of everybody. Usually I'm in with a group singing never truly by myself, so I'm a little self-conscience about my voice. I've been told by audience members that I did really well and that the show was a big success. I'm proud of my performance for this role, but also very proud of the rest of the cast. We had a wonderful cast this year, everything just seemed to fit together. I'll miss working with them. I highly recommend The Tempest to read or better yet see. It is Shakespeare's last play and you can tell because of how put together it is and the wonderful epilogue at the end spoken by Prospero. As an actor in this play, I wanted so badly just to get lost in this world that Shakespeare made up. To close my eyes and open them to see an island with all the power to change it at my fingertips. To truly believe in the magic of Prospero and Ariel and the sweetness of the love between Miranda and Ferdinand. To see the horrible, disfigured Caliban and smell the alcohol on Trinculo and Stephano's clothing and to see the foul sceams that Antonio and Sebastian (or in our case Antonia and Sebastiana) spill from their mouths, and of course to see and feel Prospero's great wrath and power over these people and the island itself and all those who inhabit it. It's almost breathtaking.
"Oh brave new world, that has such people in it." -Miranda
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