Acting

[Lokasenna]

Just out of interest, does anyone here indulge in a bit of acting now and then? After all, literature and theatre do go somewhat together?

I'll admit that I love acting, although I haven't done any for a couple of years. That's more to do with the lamentable fact that the drama scene is pretty much dead at my Uni. I turned up for an audition of Titus Andronicus once, and as it was the only Shakespeare performed in at least 5 years, over 300 people turned up for the auditions... sigh...

Anyway, I'd say my biggest (and most enjoyable) part was playing Epicure Mammon in Jonson's The Alchemist - possibly the most fun I've had in my life.

So, what have other people been in?

[1n50mn14]

I must admit, I don't do a lot of acting- I'm a terrible actor. But I've been involved in theatre since I was in my mother's womb- literally. :lol: I've stage managed, been an errands-runner, designed/hung/run lighting, designed/run sound, worked in wardrobe and makeup, ushered.... pretty much anything to do with theatre.

I've been in 'Normal'
'Frosty the Snowman' (Grade Two... as the snowman...)
A few plays at the local university written by my old drama teacher.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A one act called Gemini. It was about fairies.
Charlotte's Web
To Kill a Mockingbird

[Niamh]

I studied Theatre Studies when i was in college so i did a spot of acting. :D
I loved my role as Titivillus in "Mankind".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_(play)

[Wilde woman]

I don't act myself because I'm faaaar too self-conscious, but one of my co-workers, a Shakespeare specialist, majored in drama at Harvard. Having read her work, I must say it's given her some insight I certainly didn't have.

[Anto Magann]

I would of liked to have indulge acting but I think I have more a face for radio. :-)

I am a sound enginer and also have in interest in lighting but I have tiny thing about heights. But I have a great interest theatre. Just every thing really, you can just be transported. I would love to work in a theatre. Any jobs that I have done which would be rather small and not what talking about. Made me love the theatre more. the sets for example some which would be amazing.

In recent monthes I been going to the theatre alot. My girlfriend loves going to theatre aswell.

[Shea]

I miss acting. I really haven't done much since college. I think when little Liam is old enough, I'd like to find a community theatre and audition there.

In high school, I was in Scrooge (one of the Cratchet children), Annie Get Your Gun, and I did several pieces in our Readers Theatre. I was in a special writing class and we either recited our poems, or acted out our stories.

In college, I was in a fun play called Dear Ruth. I can't remember the name of my character anymore, but it was the sister of the soldier who comes to marry Ruth. And for my speech class, you could say I acted out my speech. Our instructor said not to memorize your speech because you want it to sound fresh. I did anyway, and acted as if I was coming up with my words just from my notes. lol

Right now, I can do rather dramatic recitations of Beowulf in Old English and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Those are fun! :D

[amanda_isabel]

i did a lot of theater in high school, but not so much acting.. i'm, well, not so good. :D but i did a lot of the technical work, mostly stage management, and i got into directing for a while.

now i'm in college i'd love to continue theater but i don't like that apart from there's hardly any, if at all, funding for the theater group, i don't like their approach to theater; it's more of activist theater, plus what they've been doing hasn't seen any variation since its first days.

[mono]

As a playwright and I have helped with a bit of directing, I wish I could act, but I get an awful stagefright. Unlike others, I do not forget my lines, but tend to either speak too fast or too slow, and sometimes alternate! :lol:
I had a small part, basically as an extra with a whole 3 lines, in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, as well as in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and Macbeth. I suppose different people have different talents, but I embarrass myself every time, and strongly prefer writing and directing, especially the former.

[Lokasenna]

Right now, I can do rather dramatic recitations of Beowulf in Old English and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Those are fun!

I do the same! They're my party pieces!:lol:

[a_little_wisp]

Wooo, acting! My first role was a flower in the Nutcracker in fourth grade, and I was very jealous because my best friend at the time was the lead flower.

Then the next year, in fifth grade, I got the part of Alice in The Trial of Alice in Wonderland. It was SO much fun. Middle school and high school were, unfortunately, void of chances to act (I was in a lot of choir stuff though) as our drama department was always lacking.

When our AP English classes put on small pieces from various plays though, I was Atticus Finch, Marc Antony, and Ophelia, and then got the role of Madame Dilly in "On The Town" when the drama department got around to putting on a show.

[Zee.]

I played Cinderella once in a production

[PoeticPassions]

I did some acting in high school... once I auditioned for a musical, but realized that I can't sing very well. I do love drama (have taken some drama courses in college), and do love to read plays, watch plays (I go to the theater and to Operas often), as well as films. I have written some screenplays, and I wouldn't mind being in some indie flick (as a minor character). But, like most everyone, I do get pretty bad stage fright....

[sprinks]

I study Drama at school, last year we did a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, I was Helena. This year I'm not all that sure what we're doing yet. The year before last I was involved in the publicity side of the school's production of Romeo and Juliet, before I actually joined the drama class.

[sprinks]

Oh and in Lit we study at least 2 plays a year (then another one or two for the sake of it) which we often act out when studying them in class. Last year we had to perform an excerpt from The Crucible for an assessment to show that we understand stage directions and language etc. I played Mary Warren.

[jhonerliz]

When I was in my high school days, I loved acting. Now, I love acting more and more... it seems that it is now my passion.
I love musical plays and I love love directing musicals

[SleepyWitch]

of course, I act every day :D e.g. I'm friendly to people I don't like etc.

nah, seriously, I was a member of the drama group in highschool for two years. In year 12 I played a dumb janitor in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata. In year 13 I was a fury in Satre's The Flies. Nope, not a furby, a fury. I very nearly got casted as Jupiter, but I didn't prepare for one of the two auditions, so a boy got the role because he prepared both monologues.