the little prince

At long last, the finals [hell] week is finally over!!! I couldn’t be more relieved that this torture has finally come to pass but I couldn’t celebrate just yet. The day of reckoning is still upon us. By that I mean the course card distribution. I think I did well in the exams and I’m pretty sure I didn’t flunk anything it’s just that there’s a saying that goes: don’t count your chickens till they hatch.

To help me avoid counting any chickens, let’s talk about something else. One of the things I love to do is to act in a play. And I’m glad that recently, I had the opportunity to do just that. We did this theatrical adaptation of a well known Exupery classic - The Little Prince. I portrayed the Rose, the little prince’s love interest. The character that I played was this beautiful, sweet, charming but painfully self-absorbed and vain little creature. I used the character Catherine Zeta-Jones played in America’s Sweetheart as a model for my role and since this is theatrical acting, I tried to make it funnier and livelier but that was pretty much how it was. If you read the book, you would know that Rose is not just the name of my character, but basically that is what I was…a rose! [as in long stemmed, plant with thorns and leaves] Thank God my costume didn’t involve petals around my head and leaves on my hand. It’s quite a modern presentation so all I had to do was to don on a red attire and a flower in my hair and that would suffice.

I love to act because it offers me the chance to be something or someone else that otherwise I wouldn’t be or even consider to be or do [in real life] have some kind of fun with it and get away with it. It gives you the freedom to explore the what if’s…what if I was a doctor, what if I was a lawyer, or some clown…sky’s the limit to the endless possibilities to what you can pretend to be without being against the law or something and at the end of the day, you can return to being your old self.

Aside from these and getting to try on the costumes, another thing that makes these kinds of experiences fun and unforgettable are the people you meet along the way. I got to know some people that knew some of my other friends which further proves that the it’s really a small world after all. Here are some pictures we took after the presentation….