Rough Draft #3 - And... Action

Why me, why now? Those were the words I asked my self 5 minutes before I went on stage. Today was the day I preformed my play in front of students for the very first time. It wasn't a long play or a play preformed in a theater just a regular school play, but it still made me nervous. It all started two months ago. Here's what happened.

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I was waiting in line to go and audition and I was ready for anything, I knew I could do it. Getting on stage to audition for the play Little Red Riding Hood when my director who was also a teacher at my school told me she wanted me to audition for the part of little red. I was surprised she wanted me to audition for the biggest part of the play.


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I did the audition and a week later the cast list was posted. I got the part of Little Red. I told my friends and they were all happy and excited for me and I knew they would support me the whole time. But then I thought to myself can I do this actually preform in front of people. Oh my god what did I get my self into this time.

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"Do you think I can do this? Actually not forget any of my lines?" I asked my friend Rogena.

She told me "Your a great actress and I believe in you 100%."

"Okay here I go."

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"Places everyone" yelled Miss Perez. "And.. Action"

Knocking on the door about to say my first line I remember I shouldn't be scared I signed up for it because I love it. "Grandma it's me Little Red" I say with excitement and enthusiasm. During the middle of the play I just start to have fun with it. I had to do this twice and I was so excited for my next performance knowing that I could do this with no problems at all.

My last line of the play and I never have to do this again. Even though I doubted my self in the beginning I had a lot of fun. I'm so excited for my next play in doing for school called Agatha Rex. This one is much longer but we also had much more time to rehearse it. Hopefully I don't get as nervous for this on as I did Little Red Riding Hood. This time I have one of my good friends Sam in this play and as Ms. DeAnna says were like Tweetle Dee and Tweetle Dumb and we finish each others sentences. It's going to be great. Now time for the Little Red Riding Hood cast party. YAY!!!

Thoughtful word choices

The only word I can think of changing was the word 'said' the words I can change it to are ---->
Told, spoke, exclaimed..... ect.

1) My last line of the play in the second performance then I don't have to do this again "Uncle Vernen I think I have someone who wants this job.-----> My last line of the play in the second performance the I don't have to do this again. "Uncle Vernan I think I have someone who wants this job...."

2) Knocking on the door about to say my first line I remember why I'm doing this, to have fun. ------> Knocking on on the door about to say my first line I remember why im doing this. To have fun.

I think those are the only ones I have to change all the others I like how they are.

Rough Draft #2

"Boom, Boom, Boom" I could hear the beat of my heart thumping. I was nervous yet excited at the same time. Today is the day I present my play ' Little Red Riding Hood' in front of students for the very first time.

This wasn't a long play or a play preformed in a theater just a regular school play, but it still made me nervous. "How am I going to be able to do this?" I asked my teacher who was also the director of the play. She told me "just pretend like it's a rehearsal and everything will be okay" I took her advise.

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"Places everyone." Said Miss Perez, "And... action." Knocking on the door about to say my first line I remember why I'm doing this, to have fun. "Grandma it's me Little red" I say with excitement and enthusiasm.

During the middle of the performance I just started having fun with it. I had to do this twice and I was so excited for my second time. And I hope I will do so much better knowing i can do this. I am up for anything know my friends will support me the whole time.

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My last line of the play i the second performance then I don't have to do this again "Uncle Mike I think I have someone who wants this job. He's great with kids and up for anything." And now end of the show. Yay now for the party.

Post #5- Interior monologe

"Yikes, what if I forget my lines or I get so nervous I can't talk? I hope nothing bad happens. Thank god my friends are here to support me all the way. Hopefully they will make me feel more confortable."

Post #4 Incorporating dialog with gesture

1)Boom, Boom, Boom. I could here the beat of my heart thumping.


2) "Grandma it's me Little red" i say remembering why i'm doing this


3)"places everyone.... and action" Said Ms Perez


4)the last line of the play I say with everything I have "Uncle Yellow I think I have someone who wants that job and he's great with kids."

post #2- flashback technique

"Will I get the part I wanted" I asked myself right before the cast list was posted. "How will I do if I a good part?" "The cast list is posted" said Ms. Perez.

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Now performance day.......

post #3 - 4 different leads

1) Arresting sentence- Today I have mixed emotions.....


2) Posting question/spoken words- "Why me why now?"


3)Astonishing fact- Lots of people wish they could act, but once they get a role they find out they didn't really want to do it.


4) Setting the mood- Getting ready to go on stage in front of students for the very first time I ask myself "am I able to do this?"

Rough Draft #1

"Yikes, oh my god what if I forget my lines or what if I get so nervous I can't speak". Those were the exact words that I told my teacher (that was also the director of the play) on the first day of off book rehearsal. The play was "Little Red Riding Hood" and I played Little Red. It wasn't a long play or a play that wqas preformed in a theater, it was just a regular school play. I had to preform it twice once in front of the grades kindergarden to second and the second one in front of grades three to five. I think the second preformance was more frightening because I had to do it in front of my friends, and enemys.

Now for my dress rehearsal. All dressed up as if I was going to preform in front of the students but we aren't about to just in front of the rest of our cast. I found out being on stage wasn't as scary as I thought, it was actually a real thrill.

Finally Preformance day the first preformance was at 9:30 in front of group one (k-2) and the second at 11:30 in front of group two (3-5). Now that I found out I shouldn't be nervous I wasn't even though all my teachers from my first half the time I was there and I didn't care and I was up for anything that could happen, good thing nothing did. I think I did very good but I hope I do better in my second preformance. Now I just have to get through my second one. And in this one I think I did so much better than I did before just because I new I could do it and that it was fun not scary.

My favorite part of this preformance was preforming it even though at first i was doubting myself then I ended up having a lot of fun.