Words, Words, Words... An Actor's Journey: Week 10

CSC Apprenticeship---Week Ten!

Closing out the 10-week saga of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Apprenticeship was both a relief and a little sad. A relief it was, purely in the physical sense because we had been working so hard for so long. Sad, in the sense that this wonderful creative environment that we learned so much for was ending.

For our final classes together, we had the pleasure of working one on one with Steve Maler in a Master Class on monologues. It was a perfect way to close the program: we were able to implement the techniques and exercises we had learned throughout our program in one final monologue to show Steve. He really took the time with each of us (all 21!) to work as if we were the only person in the class. Really specific to us, really specific to who we are as actors. And he helped us move forward with the pieces.

I chose Lady Macbeth for my final piece. I don't know, maybe I was on a power trip from playing Lady Percy all summer, but I wanted to go powerful, and to delve into the fear, and darkness of the piece.