I just woke up!
It’s past 11am!
And knowing that my first radiation treatment is, tomorrow, I’d not be surprised if while I was asleep, my brain has been working overtime to withhold anxiety from overwhelming my surface layer of calm. Hopefully, my subconscious state of alarm (based in horror stories on the part of some of our radiated friends), will prove unfounded for me, and I’ll just feel more fatigued.
I plan to spend what little is left of this morning practicing my part as Lady Anne in Shakespeare’s RICHARD III, which will be fun as I watch myself grow less apt at tripping over Elizabethan word choices each time I recite my lines, again and again. Then this afternoon, I’ll FaceTime with my classmate, Chuck (who played Desdemona to my Othello), and as he’ll play the part of Richard in our most current Zoomed student project (to be performed in early December), we’ll practice our lines, together.
We chose the scene in which R is wooing A after he’s killed her husband and father-in-law in battle. As you can imagine, this is an emotion-driven scene, and thus, is great fun to capture for ourselves. Gentle Ann feels driven to call R, (the blackguard), every despicable word that expresses her disgust until the end of the scene whence she capitulates and can be seen extending her arm to accept his ring.
And now, forsooth, I am away to practice my part in this tragedy in which—alas— a pair of cherub cheeked lads, swept into the tower, will have met with foul play at the hand of the dastardly rogue uncle they’d trusted to protect them from bodily harm. Thus doth we see how one man’s lust for supreme power breeds evil—and sadly—tis no better throughout the world we inhabit, today.
As to all of my friends, tis my hope that evil will never darken your doors, freeing your souls to enjoy a lifetime of very good days …
🙋🏻♀️ Lady Anne
(who most assuredly would not be so naive if a cruel minded knave, likened to RIII, came to woo me, today)
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