A Wonderful Gift
Last night was our first night of rehearsal for “Disillusioned.” It was a good chance to get to know one another in a relaxed and intimate setting, and hear the script read through for the first time with the entire cast assembled.
As we were reading, I noticed our stage manager wiping her eyes… Then by the last scene, I noticed our actress crying, and one of our actors welling up as well.
It’s a bittersweet ending, and oftentimes when I read it, I get emotional too, but I wasn’t expecting that from everyone else…
And then, Georgie, our firecracker actress said, “You make it so easy for me to go there because you already wrote it into the script.”
Needless to say, I was ready to cry all over again, for those were some of the best words an actor could utter to a playwright.
It was a wonderful gift, and we’re off to a wonderful start.
–Sue
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