ok, so I got a little *too* into my character there...

[thehefner]

At class tonight, I was still having trouble with getting a grasp on my character (Tom in The Glass Menagerie) apologizing to his overbearing mother. I did everything I could to prepare myself for the scene tonight, reading the previous fight out loud, doing jumping jacks, until I my blood was pumping and my heart was pounding and I was nearly shivering with the intensity and tension the scene required. So it was in this state that my teacher Kate stopped the scene and she and I had the following discussion:

KATE: Tom, why are you apologizing?
ME: Because... my sister Laura asked me to.
KATE: But do you want to?
ME: No... but...
KATE: Then why are you?
ME: Because it's in the... I mean... I... don't know...
KATE: What are you apologizing for?
ME: The fight we had. The things I said to her.
KATE: Do you really feel sorry for saying those things?
ME: No.
KATE: Do you think she really is a babbling ugly old witch?
ME: Yes!
KATE: Are you really going to just give up to her?!
ME: Hell no!
KATE: Do you think that bitch deserves an apology?!
ME: Fuck no!
KATE: FUCK HER!
ME: FUCK HER UP HER STUPID ASS!
*entire class erupts into laughter*
KATE:... okay, you might not want to talk about doing that to your mother...


I jus'... got a little too into character for a moment there...