I would not claim to be an instinctive actor. I am, however, a director’s actor and a very sincere student. Tell me that after a particular line I should flinch, scratch my nose with my left hand, squint, and then look away, and I will spend rehearsal making sure I flinch, scratch, squint and look away in exactly that order.
Very literally.
My first appearances on stage were in musicals as a kindergartner.
Then came a fairly long intermission. Theatre returned after I found
Shesh Mesh Drama Club
,
an Erlangen-based registered association (e.V.) and theatre
community. Shesh mesh roughly translates from Bengali as
“ultimately” or “in the end”. Perhaps fittingly, in the end, it gave
me back a small part of childhood I had left behind.
We recently staged our
first production, The Guilty are Performing Tonight
,
a satire on greed and fragile ideologies in a futuristic corporate
setting. We are now working towards the next show.