Posted by 10derHeart on April 8, 2009, at 13:15:15
In reply to 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', posted by fayeroe on April 7, 2009, at 20:56:06
It's am amazing play. Cool they care about preserving such things.
I played Nurse Ratched in a high school production. Well, not a production in front of the whole school or the public, but one where at the end, all drama classes gathered to watch it, critique (!) and all that. I remember....it was strange playing someone so cruel, but OTOH, it was sort of "easier" than other personalities. Years later I think this is because taking the more 'evil' path is, on its face, "easier" and humans have a tendency to "enjoy" on some dark level, at least acting nasty. It seems innate. The key is to limit it to acting, I believe, and fight it in actual life...
The really clear memory is that I had a severe crush on the guy playing McMurphy, and as the lead - of course - we had so many scenes together.
I remember loving it and hating it at the same time. I got to be around the guy but I kept flubbing lines and being unable to look at him without blushing. The play has scenes where those two characters really are supposed to be right up in each others' faces, literally....eeek!! I think our teacher/director was such a cool, nice guy he clearly *knew* of my crush and was extra-patient, although he must have been rolling his eyes secretly at all the teen-aged angst that meant we had to rehearse things over and over....
Can't recall the McMurphy guy's name, and I know he never really gave me the time of day "romantically," but I think I do remember he was polite and decent to me, which is nice at those ages.
Gosh, I haven't thought about that drama class and plays and stuff in a bazillion years. Hey, Pat, thanks for inadvertently triggering me to remember that part of HS - it's not a bad memory at all....
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