Lights, camera, action! It’s time for Winterfest, a season of student-led plays and peer performances ranging from short comedies to substantial dramas.
I stand in a blank room. Across from me is a line of desks filled by directors. All I have is a slip of paper, a single prompt in my hand. I’m not a trained actor. The last time I performed in front of a crowd was my fifth grade production of “101 Dalmatians.” So, I inhale, read over the script, and decide to act like a person who is slowly going insane.
Freshman year. I remember stumbling up to the podium for the School’s annual speech competition, hands shaking. My note cards were a mess; put frankly, I was a red-faced, mumbling disaster.
I never understood what it meant to be a Lawrentian until I left campus. I had half-listened to all school speeches about the subject, but the first time I felt a real sense of identity was at the Young Writer’s Workshop this summer.
If someone had told me three years ago that I would attend a boarding school, I would have laughed. Boarding school was for movies and childhood fantasies.
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