Fringe Performances

Getting to perform in front of an audience in full costume and makeup is the best part of acting. Audience reactions are extremely helpful in telling us actors how we're doing in our performance and what kind of things we can improve on. That's the beauty of the stage, we get to to it several times, on different nights, with different audiences. We performed two nights; Wednesday Feb. 20th and Thursday Feb 21st. Wednesday's performances weren't as good as Thursday night's. It was a little disappointing because people in the audience weren't laughing at our jokes. The problem was that the jokes had to do with Shakespeare and several of his plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet). Some of those plays are quite well-known and so are the characters we parodied, such as Lady Macbeth from Macbeth and Juliet from Romeo and Juliet. However, others weren't as well-know and so some of the jokes went over people's heads. My role (as Lady Macbeth) was entertaining because I was playing an alcoholic woman, so I substituted whiskey with Apple Juice, which was... interesting. In all I think I drank two bottles of apples juice over both nights. It was fun at first, but then I just go really full. But, it did help me get into character, so it was useful in that regard. The Fringe Festival is always A LOT OF FUN and this year was no exception.