Take a break!

7^th June 2011

It’s summertime. Although school is over and even if the last thing I want to think of is school, the first thing I bought as I got home was a notebook. I bought a notebook because as soon as I got home I wanted to write the most I could, all the ideas I would have had relating to theatre. I wanted to write and be inspired.

It’s almost funny because I have so many diary and notebook that one might say I am obsessed by them, which is also true, but I never thought I could have one as well just for theatre and actually go around with it.

When I first fell in love with theatre, it was just for the stage. I loved being there and being watched and observed. I loved being a medium and that what it was.

Then, I did my first musical “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and I discovered that there is more behind the acting that make a good production. And this is when I first fell in love. It was the stage. It was the beauty of it. It is about power. The power and ability to recreate an environment or/and atmosphere. Since I was little, since I couldn’t have most of what I wanted, especially space for me, what I have always done is  to create an imaginary space where I could dream, believe and act as if that was actually what I have created.

Thanks to my experience at Pearson I have been able to focus and develop this aspect, although what is important for me it is not only being able to set and stage a play, but constantly have the focus on the aesthetic of the presentation of a production.  

Today I can also say that I have been able to direct several plays. I just think it is amazing. It is such a great possibility that I could have never thought of. I don’t realize so, although I should. In the case I will want to go back home and help on a production, although I am so young, I will feel confident enough to direct at this young age. It is true that I am not gifted in writing, although sometimes I like to put together some ideas, but my capacity to ameliorate a give personality and splendor to a play has increased way more than significantly.

I am glad and happy I can write this and I hope I will be able to write more and more on this notebook. I hope I will be able to share what I’ve got to share through theatre.