RECAP. part 2

The Rehearsals

One month to go before play day.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. As the clock bonged to midnight, ‘unbelievable’ was the only word I can think of. And maybe the only one I can utter for the meantime. I can’t sleep that night. I was just replaying the motions of classes and particularly play practices in my mind. Our life is now abnormal. With that I meant, going home past four thirty in the afternoon. With that too, I meant sleeping past midnight. Ha! A change in lifestyle. Anyway, I was surprised that before we started the real rehearsals, we had some theater exercises. It was fun doing some. It ended early because we were losing time. We still need to practice twenty-two scenes! For one month! Seriously?


We’ve practiced the first scene for the umpteenth time while we haven’t practiced the rest. Our props were almost finished. Our technical script is still “under construction”. In any case, squabbles and arguments still happened. Of course, it did. Misunderstanding made our bond as a class stronger, but it also made us waste time. I felt that we hated one another. That’s why, we can’t move on with what we were doing. We were holding grudges in our hearts. And some were holding “huffs”. So, I was wondering all the time, “What will happen to our play? Most likely, to our class? Will we stay as one, until the end of the year? They just consumed it all. Our work became slower and slower. It also became tedious. But with heart-to-heart talks, it became faster. In the case of the rehearsals, tiring is one of the best words to describe it. My normally black-brown eyes lost the glow in them. They’re just blank. During classes, I can’t hear teachers lecturing. Instead I was dreaming. Every Saturday we went to school to rehearse. At first, we were really into practicing seriously, as in not wasting time, but later, I can’t help but join childhood games with the rest of the class. It took my breath away. The clock was ticking. Yes, we were losing time. But to me and to them, why not have some break? Some fun?