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" In high school, I was heavily involved with the theatre program. In college, I decided to first get settled into the new environment and not audition for anything. However, after I saw a flyer for a &amp;quot;24 Hour Play Festival,&amp;quot; I was definitely interested. Basically, seven 10-minute plays are written, directed and performed in 24 hours. At 8 P.M., all of the writers, directors, actors (including me), and coordinators meet and mingle. Writers then compose their plays &amp;#039;til 6 A.M., then the directors come and choose their script and casts. Finally, we come in and spend the entire day memorizing, teching and mentally preparing for a performance that night! Anyway, our play consisted of three people, including me, and to my relief... it was a comedy! We all spent a while wandering around, trying to find a place to rehearse and finally decided to go outside. The plan of attack was to read it through a few times, then completely memorize it and reconvene to read it through a few more times. I can memorize pretty quickly, so luckily, my stress level was relatively low. Actually, we were all able to stay mellow, especially since it&amp;#039;s a radio show plot. We all decided to have southern accents, and I discovered I wasn&amp;#039;t half bad at it! We had lunch together, rehearsed some more, moved inside to use props, had some time on the stage, and then tech arrived. We were performing last, so we got to sit through a preview of all of the scenes and they all looked so good, I wish I was sitting in the audience for the performance! We grabbed a quick dinner, and went backstage to get prepped for the show...  I could not believe that I was actually going through with this :X Sitting backstage and waiting is the most nerve-racking part. I spent most of it just staring at my script because I just knew I&amp;#039;d forget something. It was finally time for us to go on. Fortunately, we had no major break down or freak accident, but it was not exactly how we rehearsed it, haha. We exaggerated our parts, messed up our lines, but furiously tried to save it, and had fun with it. I was fully character driven and tried to make it as comedic as possible. I really think it went well because it entertained the audience. Afterward, the director and writer came up to me and said they really liked it, so I was happy for their approval. I just had a ton of fun :) Even though you may not want to completely invest a lot of time into one interest, if you&amp;#039;re passionate about it, you should definitely find some way to pursue it!  &amp;amp;lt;3 Noelia "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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