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Young actor Austen Cloud asked,'How can we do it, Char?” And all I could say was, “Love and Trust, Austen, Love and Trust. Currently the production includes 26 scenes from 11 Shakespearean plays. Can it be that there are 62 parts to fill, not including the Fairies and Forest Folk who will be the Rappahannock tots enchanted for the evening?
Already the young actors are tiying their hand at Portia (Anna Clark), Juliet, Falstaff (Wes Kitchen), but recently we went further into the realm of fantasy: The Witches from Macbeth—and what a trip that was! Given the chance to be totally evil and imagine the “gross” things the witches put in their cauldron, the faces of the charming RappRepCo actors contorted with the ugly, awfulness of the witches on the heath. Add to their delight in being really bad, the encouragement of Heather Puskar, Cam mi Kitchen, and Bernadette OHeir as they stirred the cauldron made for a truly a gory afternoon.
Fitness and
acting ability
Last week I learned about the daily sports practices and time the young, well-rounded actors spend in athletics. It will put a dent in our rehearsal time. Yet, I realized that the young people who were coming to the classes were so fit, active and agile. Cindy Arbelbide, Children’s Librarian at the County Library, confirmed the tie between sports and the arts. I had mentioned to the actors that being good performers was akin to being fine athletes but, as we sometimes do, I used it as a platitude to get them to work. Now I see that the stamina, concentration, endurance, and team spirit these young actors demonstrated was coming from their participation in sports.
Now, here is an idea, the coming together of the sports and arts. Perhaps I can speak to the local coaches and see how we could work together. I can just imagine the soft ball team warming up to Henry V rousing speech or the track team giving their opponents the “evil eye” as they chant from Macbeth, “Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire bum and cauldron bubble.” And perhaps some of the theatre techniques like “being in the moment,” canceling out any other distractions could help the athletes. It’s a long shot, but maybe the Rappahannock coaches and I can form a team—arts and sports feeding each other with energy.
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