Play Practice

My Character in the play

So I am going to be in a play in two weeks.  I only have one scene and 7 sentences (one in English, one in Japanese).  I’m excited for it though.  Its called 未完待续, and I play one of the death characters (there are 4 deaths). Its interesting because they made my character specifically for me.  I’m not like the Chinese deaths, I am like the grim reaper.  But they took the scythe directly out of a Japanese anime called Soul Eater.  Also, one of my lines (Sayoonara) is in Japanese.  I am very familiar with Soul Eater because I cosplayed the character that had the scythe (the scythe I made was bigger and much more sturdy than the one here, but the one here is really good too).  So I am practicing memorizing lines in Chinese...hopefully my tones aren't too bad.  

This is me as Maka at NDK last year!

Well so play practice is going on all this week.  And I discovered that most people (including me) go directly from class to practice without eating dinner.  Which makes my irresistable urge to feed people rear its ugly head.  Last practice I brought some breads, apples and oranges.  Then I left the room so I could focus on practicing my lines.  I was a little sad cause I had pulled all the food out of my back pack and no one was touching it, even though I said it was for everyone.  When I came back into the room, the first thing I noticed was the smell of oranges (if you've seen me eat an orange/clementine you know how I felt).  I was really happy cause the group had scarfed most of the food down, and people thanked me too.  One of the guys (his English name is Jessie, I still don't know his Chinese name) came out when I was practicing the lines...he was worried about me feeling anti-social or something. He thanked me for the food, and told me I should come back into the room cause it was colder in the hallway.  I told him no, I wanted to do well on the lines.  But when it came time for me to say them I totally blew it.  Not the lines but my performance...I was not pretending there was an audience, I was way too quiet and my body language was all wrong.  So I'll definitely keep coming to rehearsals to practice.  I want to get this down perfectly.  ^^