Considering The Inability to sing or dance, irritation at taking direction, squeamishness at stage kissing and generally not getting any good roles, it might make you wonder why I was so set on being an actor for the first seventeen or so years of The Life.
But you see, I was destined for the stage.
Although looking back I can only wince at The Terrible Performances, at the time people I barely knew would quite often come up to me and tell me how good I was at acting and no one ever did that to me about ANYTHING else.*
I was destined for the stage.
I knew this because when I was five, I was in The First Production. I was dressed as a robin. All I had to do was climb up the steps to the stage, do a quick circuit with a little girl also dressed as a robin and freeze. Gradually more animals and plants were added to the scene until a huge vista of natural environment as portrayed by toddlers was created.
But as I climbed The Large Steps, The Short Legs couldn’t make it, The Foot missed The Step and I fell. SMACK. I hit the stage painfully. The audience gasped, then held in the breath, waiting for the tantrum.
And a message came to me clear out of the air, forming forcibly in The Mind and it was all I knew.
The show must go on.
So despite the pain, I lifted The Self up, performed The Circuit, held The Freeze-Frame and didn’t cry.
*I mean at that time. I have been complimented since then many times about my writing and about my work.
But as I climbed The Large Steps, The Short Legs couldn’t make it, The Foot missed The Step and I fell. SMACK. I hit the stage painfully. The audience gasped, then held in the breath, waiting for the tantrum.
And a message came to me clear out of the air, forming forcibly in The Mind and it was all I knew.
The show must go on.
So despite the pain, I lifted The Self up, performed The Circuit, held The Freeze-Frame and didn’t cry.
*I mean at that time. I have been complimented since then many times about my writing and about my work.
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