A friend of mine saw me in Burn. She told me that it was the best performance she's seen me do in all the shows of mine that she's seen.
She might be right.
You hope that you do a good job when you're acting in a play. But I'm lazy when I'm preparing for a show.
I had to raise my acting game for Burn.
Matt, the director, wanted us off book at the start of rehearsals. (That means have all your lines learned.)
I wasn't off book. But I was going through my script a lot more than I usually do.
I knew a lot of my lines at the beginning. And I worked harder than usual because the others were mostly off book.
Everyone brought their "A" game to the process. So, I did, too.
Matt liked to tell the story of some direction he received when he was younger. His director told him to come on stage, do exactly what he did, but this time to "act as best as you can."
It became a running gag in rehearsals.
At some point, we were each told to "act as best as you can."
I think we did.
And I hope that level of commitment becomes my new standard.
I hope that the next show I perform in, I act as best as I can.
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