Shakesperience Aftermath

  I've been spending a lot of time thinking about my past. I view the past as a teacher, to help me improve. It's also a great way to get over pride and laugh at myself. I have spent part of my time reading the very beginning of this blog. Trust me, where we are now is a huge improvement. As much as I sometimes try to deny it, theatre was a huge part of my life. It made me see how much I could work for something I truly wanted. Don't believe me? Go look at my monologue and script book. You can hardly see the words of the original text. Theatre, along with other things, taught me to think differently-transcendentally. Things have stopped being black and white to me, I live in the grey area now. I speak differently from other people and can forgive a lot more than others. I'm not sure, but I learned that every body has a story and in their story, they are the hero. People don't have the tendency to be rude and mean to people for kicks and giggles-they have their reasons.

Henry V with Nick

  For the first time in four years, I am not spending a weekend in the City of Cedar wearing costumes and reciting Shakespeare at Southern Utah University. I'm not screaming at skittles or speaking French with pomade in my hair. This could be the first time that I really know that I am in college. I know, I've been gone for a month and a half at least, but it just dawned on me that I have moved out.
Shakespeare really made theatre worth it for me. I love Shakespeare. I love the thought that went into the script, the iambic pentameter. Everything is done on purpose and man's true form is tangible. I love the conspiracy theories of Shakespeare, where people wonder if he existed in one man or many. I love how people today think that Shakespeare is high class and sophisticated when he really is saying some dirty things. I love how his words spoke to every man. I love how real he was to me because of all the words he said. I love how invigorating and inspiring the words are

Henry VI with Isaac

Friends, Romans, country men, lend me your ears.

O, for a muse of fire.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but ourselves.

And this above all; to thine own self be true.

A Winter's Tale with Nate and Claire

  Three years ago, I felt the need to create chapters on my Shakespearience. Three years later, my chapters of Shakespearience would have to be created into my own autobiography. I miss the simplicity of the early stages of my life. As simple as I think it was, I learned the most profound truths from the most amazing people. Austyn. Nick. Isaac. Claire and Nate. I feel like life really kicked in around high school; guess I had a late start.
  I can't wish for myself to go back to sophomore year of high school. But I sure as heck am grateful that I had that year of my life. I couldn't possibly have the vocabulary that I have today. I don't think I could believe in the things that I do in the way that I can now. I don't think I could love the way I am able to. My Shakespearience left an aftermath of a better life, a better person. It was the best four autumns of my life.