I'm insanely shy and ran off stage crying at a regional french poetry recital/competition (when I was school age), and speech class made me freak out and was dropped mid-semester to avoid my turn in front of everyone, yet I studied theatre, tele, and film acting (and then went into management later successfully) and LOVED the experiences dearly. Drama class is brilliant and I wish you the best. I think the creative/interpretive aspect of acting can mask the hesitance of the ego to risk embarrassment and failure....or something...maybe it's just fun and rewarding.
When I was in that small theatre/film school, I took a psyche class with a retired Harvard professor who witnessed my acting ability at some point on campus and invited me to start spontaneously acting out various mental derangements in class, leaving the other surprised (and scared) students to guess exactly what I was suffering from. I thought it was brilliant and looked forward to alienating all the psyche majors, but the class was dropped for scheduling reasons before I really got to sink my teeth in. Would have been too much fun!
Neurotransmitters are a fine topic of conversation in my opinion.
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Date: 2007-09-22 10:23 am (UTC)When I was in that small theatre/film school, I took a psyche class with a retired Harvard professor who witnessed my acting ability at some point on campus and invited me to start spontaneously acting out various mental derangements in class, leaving the other surprised (and scared) students to guess exactly what I was suffering from. I thought it was brilliant and looked forward to alienating all the psyche majors, but the class was dropped for scheduling reasons before I really got to sink my teeth in. Would have been too much fun!
Neurotransmitters are a fine topic of conversation in my opinion.