So, yes, my Sunday night performance went great … Thank you for everybody who wrote in to ask me!! And for those who are engaging in a sort of Irish brawl throughout my comments, complete with Irish brogues – I love that! So here is a brief update:<\/p>\n
Every time I perform the piece, I gain confidence in it.<\/p>\n
It is a far different experience to perform your OWN words as opposed to somebody else’s. I have found, so far, that the experience for me is an odd mixture of confidence\/certainty – and UTTER NEEDINESS. I believe in the integrity of the piece, I enjoy doing it, and yet … since I wrote it, and since it is about an event in my life … I have a tendency to FREAK OUT with nervi-ness before and after-hand. I feel like a raw freakin’ nerve.<\/p>\n
But this is neither here nor there.<\/p>\n
The Irish Arts Center is a great venue and I was pleased to be a part of their lineup.<\/p>\n
My parents were in attendance (I have been blessed, in terms of parents … truly blessed!) – my aunt Regina, her friend, my friend David, my friend Barbara ….<\/p>\n
I was so glad to have my Peeps there with me.<\/p>\n
And … let me just tell you … to hear these waves of laughter coming back at me, while I am up on the stage, sometimes a wave of laughter, sometimes a thunderclap … There is literally nothing else like that sound on the earth. It is the best sound in the world. (Well, maybe a baby laughing is THE best sound …. but an audience bursting into spontaneous laughter because of something you, the actor have done, is a close second). It feels AWESOME.<\/p>\n
It was the kind of night where … I was dropped off at home by my friend David, and I had to just sit, quietly, in a chair in my room, and just sit there. Living in it. Reveling in it. Not bustling about, not writing, not distracting myself with TV, or whatever … Just sit there. Just BE.<\/p>\n
More to come. More to come.<\/p>\n
The piece has LEGS, dammit, it has LEGS! So I will see where it takes me.<\/p>\n
I guess you could say that (and I say this with humility, and also, a kind of weird shyness) – that I’m proud of myself.<\/p>\n
Yes. I am proud of myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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