Overlooked

Skipped

After a week, I was still kinda pissed that after all my hard work and my crying, I didn't get as much as a "you were great" from the core. I thought my performance deserved a little bit of praise seeing as the last time someone really cried onstage was 3 years ago.

I attended the club meeting and the core said that there was going to be a lobby performance and that month was the acting club's turn to host one. They announced that only the core was performing for the lobby performance. They said that it was to "prevent us from being stressed" by preparing another skit so soon. I nodded along but internally I was frustrated. Alicia and Kayla were making their debut as the new core members. I was dying inside.

Then they continued announcing that for the big showcase that year, the acting club would have 2 skits, 1 that was a spoken word performance about patriotism and the other was another interpretive skit about passing on kindness. Of course after the pretty successful interpretive skit I just did, I wanted to volunteer for that skit. Also.. I'm not a huge fan of spoken word (even though I tend to write like it). I feel like certain people make spoken word seem more pretentious rather than exhibiting real emotion. The moment I raised my hand to volunteer, I felt the glare of one of the core members and they announced that it was an EXCLUSIVE core performance. Why even announce it in the first place? I know they wanted us to know but why not announce that it was a core only performance as the introduction and just tell everybody that we'll all be forced into a skit/ spoken word performance.

When the core in charge of us started talking, he explained that there were people who had "solo lines". The skit was about patriotism so ½ of the solo people would speak in the native language and the other ½ in English. I'm pretty fluent in both but I chose English so it would be easier for me to memorize.