The last few Wednesdays I've been helping direct Alex's class in a little play. Our scene was the battle of Trenton. Alex was a German solider. He had memorized his part early and was very excited to perform. He told me he wasn't nervous-like the rest of his class-just excited. We worked hard on talking loud and slowly. He had some hard words like "triumph" but he didn't forget any of his lines or cues. I could tell he was in fact nervous but not any more so than anyone else.
It's hard for me to direct children. All children, not just Alex. Especially when they have no idea how to project, or any sort of stage direction. But he did okay, in fact he did just as well as some of the other children-he does have a little accent but it's hard to place just what kind of accent it is. Too bad it wasn't German. That would have been lovely.
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