Another Frightening Thing About Facebook:

… is that same friend also uploads a photo of you and her, backstage, at our college’s acclaimed production of Anne of Green Gables. I played Anne Shirley, and she played my arch enemy, Josie Pye.

However, judging from this photo: I am playing a hungover Ma Joad or a stoned-out-of-his mind Yasir Arafat and she is playing a kooky Southern belle getting ready for the spring ball.

We are obviously singing something. And eating candy.

Backstage.

We are ALL ABOUT our hair.

To explain my get-up: I cannot explain the trench coat, but the scarf on my head is due to pin curls (what Mitchell called “the horror and humiliation of pin curls”) because I, as Anne, wore a wig, and needed my hair to be pinned down. I looked ridiculous. The chairman of our theatre department and director of the show glanced at me once during a dress rehearsal, me in my pin curls, and she said, “Sheila, you look like a Roman frieze.”

So when I was out in public (and this was, although backstage, public – because we were competing in the ACTF with the show – so it was a MADHOUSE backstage) I would put on that stupid scarf.

But still.

I cannot explain the trench coat. Maybe it was cold?