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Had callbacks for The Hanging of the Greens last night, and so was able to see many more of the potential cast for the show. Definitely a lot of talented kids! I also ran into Kate and Ali who were also in last year's Hansel and Gretel, so perhaps we'll all get to do another show together. I felt good about how the callbacks went, and now all I can do is wait and see. I see from Claudia's blog that the casting is complete, so it could be anytime now...


Yes, this is the part of the acting life that drives me crazy, just waiting to get the answer to the question, "Who am I?" What is the character (if any) that I will be "living with," so the speak, for the next month and a half? In essence, I (and everyone who auditioned) are waiting to be named. There is something very significant about the act of naming. In Genesis the first task we see God give Adam is to name the animals (and I find it also significant that the first acts of God and man in the Bible are both creative acts). And in the Old Testement we see that names are given which somehow reflect the person themselves, they have a meaning of significance, and so I think we can safely assume that the names Adam gave also reflected the essence of what each animal was. There are many references in literature to how knowing something's true name gives you power over it.


What does this have to do with acting? When you portray a role and spend that much time immersing yourself in the character, it becomes part of you, and even when the show is over a piece of that character stays with you. To be named is not a trivial thing.