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Jack in as You Like It
For the last two weeks I have been performing the part of Jack in As You Like It. The director, a man named David Austin, has neither the vision nor spark to turn it into something truly memorable. He made one direct oil decision for which I cannot praise him enough. During this soliloquy he has the other actors in the scene walk up stage, beyond the lights, and has me delivering the lines out, into the audience alone. For the play it's a bad decision. But for me, declaiming, casting my voice out, surrounded by people watching me, yet completely alone. And within that, there is some strangely awful fate waiting for me.