de bags of de wimmins is be full of receipts

Well, the dress rehearsal was pretty good, but a bit unsatisfying in a couple of key scenes for me - and overshadowed by alexx_kay being struck upon the head by a sword, and needing stitches. I liked that fight, but we all thought it would be best to drop it for tonight's show, parts of it being so uncontrolled as to let that kind of injury happen.

However, I spent much of the afternoon musing on things that I could tweak, and getting feedback from cat9's fresh eyes, and I for one am fully satisfied with my performance. Beyond that, a few parts that I had been pretty dubious about right up until the night itself came off very well in the moment, and I was newly impressed with the talents of many of our players, whom I had already known to be very good.

The question now, of course, is after one has conquered the kingdom, and won the lady, what does one do afterward? You would think sleeping the sleep of the just was an obvious plan, but in dark humor I've got insomnia now, so you see me posting at 3:30 instead. Certainly I have a lot of residual energy, and it was a great enough role to leave me with a lot to reflect on, but after sleeping so peacefully last night it seems plainly ridiculous that I should now be unable to get me to rest.

I will tell you this, though: I will not mind if next time I act I play a plucky comic relief character the number of whose lines can be counted in the low hundreds.