MY FIRST ACTING ROLE

the first time i acted in a play was when i was in Standard Three. come to think of it, it was the only time I acted in a play. i was choosen to play the role of a farmer’s wife. X, the handsome boy in class, played the role of the farmer. so i felt a little elated about my role. we spent a whole week rehearsaling the play.learning the lines by heart was tedious. the first rehearsal was a disaster as we fumbled our lines again and again. after half a dozen rehearsals we managed to get things right. it was all very tiring. the script required me to climb up a mango tree to pluck some mangoes. obviously we could not put a manga tree in the classroom. so we improvised by hanging a mango by a string from the ceiling with a ladder below it. those were the props, placed right in front of the black board. Finally the day of the play came. i went on stage, rather, in front of the classroom, with my fellow actors and actress and performed our parts. everyting went smoothly. we never got stage-fright, thanks to our rehearsal and familiar audience of fifteen children. about half the class were the performers, the rest audience. now, a few years later, i cannot remember a single line of the play. the only thing i remember clearly is that i enjoyed eating the mango during the play.