It’s almost here. The second run of our show The Original Last Wish Baby is going to be at Ranga Shankara, which is a much bigger and well-respected theater in Bangalore.
At first when we got back to rehearsals, I must admit that I too was tired. We had already had the adrenaline rush of performing in front of a live paying audience and then we were just back to… the rehearsal venue.
But the last two practices, we’ve been working by doing some improvisational exercises that I got from a really comprehensive improv website. It really got us to look at the basics of acting: listening, reacting, and pursuing your objective. (I know that was a bit acting-y, but look it up if you’d like on Wikipedia.
So anyway- we started doing the acting exercises and we noticed a huge leap in our rehearsals. There was more energy, more life, and we were even just trying out different things that we hadn’t considered before. This is the reason I love acting: it has the power to create entire people and worlds.
Okay, I’m out before I spew out too much philosophy.