I'm in deep trouble

FRIDAY 14 MARCH 2008

Well, I met with my director Pritina today at the TA space and well, despite all the time I was given, I still hadn’t learnt my lines. You could say she was a little disappointed in me. I showed a lot of promise especially with the monologue I chose but I still don’t know my lines.

So Pritina had me read my lines out from the page while trying to get into character. To be honest, I lack the ability to truly understand what my character is all about. When I try to variate the way I say it, I still sound monotonous. It was truly a frustrating thing for me.

We didn’t have much time because she had to go over the monologues of my fellow group members. So Pritina did some work with Anshu, trying to get her to speak loud enough to be heard with the quiet space of the TA room. After a few tries with Anshu, it was back to work with me and my unlearnt lines.

This meeting was a truly difficult thing for me and maybe too for Pritina, I don’t know but I’m sure she must’ve felt frustrated with me for not learning my lines despite the fact that I had the whole long weekend to learn them. I know I can do better next time, my homework from Pritina was to learn my lines by heart and practice in front of a mirror so I can better understand my character and also work out a few facial expressions that might work with each line or sentence.

This is going to be a truly difficult exercise for me.