"But that's all one, our play is done."

I'm not quite sure how this extra credit thing works out for those of us who could not go see the play because we were, well, up on stage. I don't think I could analyze the thing anymore than I did every night for the past two and a half months, so I am just going to write.

Well... it's done. After two and a half months of late nights at USCB and even later nights trying to keep up with homework, it is over. The culmination of two and half months of my hard work was held in three short nights that went far quicker than I wished.

I hate the last performance, it is so depressing. I pour my time, my energy, and my passion into theatre, and then after the curtain closes for the last time, those moments will never come back. You cannot replay it like a movie and you cannot re-read it as your favorite book. It lasts for a few brief evenings and will never come back again.

You see, this is my livelihood. For the better part of my semesters at USCB I spend my time not only memorizing lines and rehearsing plays but doing all the logistical jobs such as publicity, and making sure our director does not lose his mind (although he claims it already happened). I love the theatre.

Working on Arlecchino was unique because it was a comedy, and while our rehearsals were anything but constant laughs, it was definitely enjoyable to see everyone make their characters their own as they brought little comedic nuances to their performances.

I am relived in a way because I now have my evenings back. I can now complete homework before midnight, sleep a full night, eat dinner while not driving in the car, and I can go about my day without referencing everything to one of my lines. And yet... as I said, there is a lingering depressing feeling in the thought that it is all over...
...until this summer!

"Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama." - David Hume

-Smeraldina ®