Masha's last entry

Working on “The Seagull” was a great experience for me. And the final showing I thought went very well. However, it was so different when we did it in front of people. I found myself second guessing myself when I got off stage and then before I went on I found myself trying to plan things out. So I had to constantly tell myself to chill out. When the performance was over I realized that Masha is such a complicated role and I really wish I could have gone deeper. I hope I get the chance to play her again. She has such an a amazing arch and it would be wonderful to delve more into it. Like Alborz said, I feel like I only clipped the tip of the iceberg.
The biggest thing I learned this semester working on Chekhov was text work. I was always very confused about how to do it and we talked about it for an hour and I understood it completely. It makes so much sense to have an action when you are not talking. I never had done that before and it automatically makes you so much more active while you are not talking on stage. So I had a clear idea of what I was doing while I wasn’t speaking, but I might as well have been because I felt so involved with what was happening on stage.