Hello Everyone!
Oh gosh, I haven't posted anything in almost two months.
For the last eight weeks, I devoted my life to six rehearsals a week for my school's senior drama production of Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights... Wuthering being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
The demanding rehearsal schedule didn't put me off though. Although it seems like a hell of a lot of time to give up for a school play, they have been performed to such a high standard over years and built such a huge reputation that it would seem silly not to put so much time and effort in.
Now that it is all over, it doesn't seem like it was that much time at all. In fact, we've only been closed two days and I already feel as though I have too much spare time.
Last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we brought April De Angelis', adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Alnwick Playhouse stage.
This is the 5th school production I've been in, but only the first senior production, and my, what an experience it has been!
I was playing Frances, wife of Hindley Earnshaw who he randomly brought back to the Heights. I also died.
Be warned Mr Lockwood, people have a habit of dying in this tale.
I'll admit at first I was apprehensive... I was nervous about looking silly, but being in a room full of actors it was a stupid thing to be worried about! I came out of my shell and had such a fantastic time.
Being in a cast of less than twenty, we all grew so close. By the end were were like one big family!
The three performances were honestly the most fun I'd had in years, and I was so sad to see it all come to an end.
Before the last night of the show, people joked that I had a heart of stone because I was the only female member of the cast that hadn't cried during rehearsals, but I was a blubbering wreck on Friday. I do have a soul!
Eight weeks of blood, sweat and tears had finally come to an end. It was the last time we were all to be together as a cast, and for some of us, including myself, our last ever senior production. T'was emotional to say the least.
Performing Wuthering Heights has helped me understand the story so much better, and everyone did their character justice. I'm not just saying this because I was in it and I think we were amazing anyway, but it was 100 times better than your average school play. We put in 110% everytime we performed and it all payed off in the end. The praise we have been getting from peers, teachers and members of the public has been phenomenal.
I really must thank everyone who was involved, our director and assistant director, the people who made our costumes, which were FANTASTIC, the sound and lighting crew, the set designers and the backstage lot. None of this would've been possible without you.
Since I'm in my final year of school, its more than likely that I won't be acting with this amazing bunch again (unless I do Return to the Forbidden Planet haha!) so I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made this experience as amazing as it was. I love you all.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Girt eedle seeght! xx
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