I was an Atomic Robot Jungle Vixen!

I had a dream last night I was auditioning for a play, but I was so unprepared that I started rooting around a bookshelf at the place the auditions were taking place (it wasn't quite a theatre) to find a dictionary to do a humourous reading from.
Now it's been a long time since I've last been on stage... A looooong time and if I were to tell you just how long, you'd know I decrepit I'm getting. I have no desire in getting back on stage in any sort of capacity again, but I am taking an improv workshop starting this coming week out of interest in seeing if I can do it, stretching my comedy muscles, and just plain personal growth.
So there is no plan to use this workshop as a step towards establishing any sort of brand spankin' new theatrical career, but I am still nervous. Like I said, it's been a long time since I've done any sort of performing, and even though I can be very funny on a day-to-day basis (and not in a "Three priests and a horse walked into a bar..." kinda way), this will be different and I may be there with trained actors.
Not only that, there are a lot of self-esteem issues in play too. There's a reason you don't see any unretouched photos of me, and even those are several years old. I hope I'll be able to get past that and just have fun, because it's going to be costing me a fair bit of unrefundable money to do this.

posted by Tabby at 9/10/2005 12:52:00 p.m.

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