Actor's lament

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“All the world’s a stage and the men and women merely players, they have their entrances and their exits”.


 Looking out, audience faces beaming and they cling to every word. You search in the crowd to see someone, anyone you know if only for some comfort. You look down and see yourself in a costume that ordinarily you would never be seen dead in, but to become someone else, even if only briefly, gives you a sense of release. Every controlled step you take was carefully constructed over months of work to get to this point. You see your partner on stage who gives you that little reassuring smile that you so craved, and that all too familiar feeling of butterflies in your stomach soon disappears as you utter those first important words. “Help!…”
 -R x.