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How I Learned to Drive changed dramatically for me between the page and stage. Seeing a play staged always changes it but in many ways what changed my perspective on the show was not the choices by the director but my circumstances at the time. I first read the play when trying to choose the college I would attend.I wanted to see if it had parts I liked and I viewed in the context of what types of shows would A.C. put on.I enjoyed the humor of the show and how it tackled diffclult issues.But this was also shortly after going to a confrence on child explotation their were various speakers and sessions but many of those I attened focused on prostitution as well as indivdual sexual preadators.I met people who had been victims of abuse saw pictures of youg girls beat up an F.B.I. agent talked about the tactics used by My Space predators.All of this made it hard for me to see any real love for Lil Bit from Peck I saw it as lies and tactics and whenever I thought the playwright was implying otherwise it angeed me.Also because I was trying to ask myself if I could play any of those roles it was that much more disturbing.The second time I came across the play was at call backs this was even more disturbing because well I did not get called up to read little bit I was scared to death I would but I was also blown away by the acting I saw particularly Micheal who was utterly creepy but also fragile.
Then I read the show for props which meant a lot more visualizing then previously because before I had been thinking more about the characters.
Then I read the show for this class were I was looking at the choices in terms Of Brecht.
The last time when I actually saw the show I was thinking about all these things but I also was deeply impacted by the fact that I now knew Jacquie from CI and I Also knew Micheal from his directing the scene I was in.Because I knew Micheal Peck became much more sympathizable because even before I sympathized with Peck I understood how hard it can be to play a charcter of that nature.The live performance also made the stage directions which are always hard for me to visualize clearer so that I saw the wedding and the look on Pecks face and I got beyond the surface.Seeing Jacquie in the role was also super disturbing particulary because the pictures made it impossible to fully separate her from the role .Especially heartwrenching was the one of her covered in Christmas bows the idea she was trying to give herself as a gift to peck to get him to stop drinking it added so much to the text. The glamour shot and the jon bena picture were also disturbuing.
For me the play was as much a journey as for Lil Bit however luckily I was able to learn without the type of cost she had to pay.
How I Learned to Drive changed dramatically for me between the page and stage. Seeing a play staged always changes it but in many ways what changed my perspective on the show was not the choices by the director but my circumstances at the time. I first read the play when trying to choose the college I would attend.I wanted to see if it had parts I liked and I viewed in the context of what types of shows would A.C. put on.I enjoyed the humor of the show and how it tackled diffclult issues.But this was also shortly after going to a confrence on child explotation their were various speakers and sessions but many of those I attened focused on prostitution as well as indivdual sexual preadators.I met people who had been victims of abuse saw pictures of youg girls beat up an F.B.I. agent talked about the tactics used by My Space predators.All of this made it hard for me to see any real love for Lil Bit from Peck I saw it as lies and tactics and whenever I thought the playwright was implying otherwise it angeed me.Also because I was trying to ask myself if I could play any of those roles it was that much more disturbing.
The second time I came across the play was at call backs this was even more disturbing because well I did not get called up to read little bit I was scared to death I would but I was also blown away by the acting I saw particularly Micheal who was utterly creepy but also fragile.
Then I read the show for props which meant a lot more visualizing then previously because before I had been thinking more about the characters.
Then I read the show for this class were I was looking at the choices in terms Of Brecht.
The last time when I actually saw the show I was thinking about all these things but I also was deeply impacted by the fact that I now knew Jacquie from CI and I Also knew Micheal from his directing the scene I was in.Because I knew Micheal Peck became much more sympathizable because even before I sympathized with Peck I understood how hard it can be to play a charcter of that nature.The live performance also made the stage directions which are always hard for me to visualize clearer so that I saw the wedding and the look on Pecks face and I got beyond the surface.Seeing Jacquie in the role was also super disturbing particulary because the pictures made it impossible to fully separate her from the role .Especially heartwrenching was the one of her covered in Christmas bows the idea she was trying to give herself as a gift to peck to get him to stop drinking it added so much to the text. The glamour shot and the jon bena picture were also disturbuing.
For me the play was as much a journey as for Lil Bit however luckily I was able to learn without the type of cost she had to pay.
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