A personal report by Elisabet Lorent
Each year, a few pupils of the ‘advanced’ English course have the opportunity to act in a play by a professional theatre company. Some pupils may associate ‘playing theatre’ with various horror scenarios, but it is actually a rather nice experience to act in front of your classmates, which is partly due to the very nice professional actors that you play with. One hour before the play actually starts, the final rehearsal begins: Some instructions about where to stand and what to do when are given, some game-like warm-up-exercises are done and, of course, the scenes are rehearsed one last time.
Then the hardest part begins: the waiting. Even though I had already participated the year before and my scene was rather short, I got embarrassingly nervous (it felt like I was going to die of a spontaneous heart attack, which would have been pretty dramatic), whilst waiting for my scene to begin. It may have been caused by the adrenalin rushing through my veins, but when my scene began, I forgot my stage fright totally and really enjoyed acting. It was really cool.
