Worthwhile Exhaustion

I am so tired! I have had a very busy and exhausting week. For the last ten days or so I have been in final rehearsals for my latest show "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You." I also just finished out opening weekend with 3 shows! I get a break tomorrow and then it's back to the theatre for Industry Night. I love theatre, but it does take its toll. To top it all off, this show is the late show playing now at the Vintage Theatre (www.vintagetheatreproductions.com) so we don't even take the stage until 10:30pm. After working my lame 9-5 job I am drained and I just want to relax, but then I have to wait and go to the theatre at 9pm to get ready for my show. But it's worth it!!!

Other people don't realize how hard actors work. They think it's so easy, like we only have to work for a couple hours doing a show, but they don't realize how much preparation goes into it, and that most actors have other jobs too. Most times we come to the theatre after work when we would just like to go home and take a bubble bath. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of times I just love running off to the theatre, because it's fun, but it's work too! It's pretty exhausting to put on a show, but we do it because we love it! We may be broke as shit, exhausted a lot of the time, but we love coming to the theatre and getting up on that stage! No matter how tired you feel before the show, no matter what kind of mood you're in, once you get up on that stage you feel so alive and so happy! Nothing else matters but what you are trying to express, and the experience you are trying to create. I don't know how else to explain it, but you just get so into the moment that you forget all else. At least that's how it is for me. I love the theatre and its unpredictability, and I love the bonds that develop with other actors when we're all crammed together backstage.

Sometimes I might complain about being tired after a long rehearsal, and I might dread going back to work after a weekend full of shows, but I wouldn't trade this life and career path for anything. I want so badly to be an actress, that I don't care how many late nights it takes me to achieve my goals!

All that being said, all the work that goes into a show is for naught if people don't come to see it, so please come see "Sister Mary Ignatius" at the Vintage Theatre! Come out and support live theatre!!