Well, hi there!

I’m Rory, a newly-minted freshman, and can I just say that I’m basically freaking out? It’s a good freak-out, though. The kind of freak-out one gets when one is working with a bunch of supremely talented and creative people to create something that is more than a sum of all of the already incredible parts.

Uncle Vanya is a new play to me, and having just read it and now watched Vanya on 42nd Street, I can’t wait to get started! It is a work that accommodates all sides of humanity and encompasses all forms of theater, from drama to comedy and on to tragedy and everything in between. It is truly a play about people, and who they are, where they came from, and where they’re going. It is an exploration about what being human means, as all works of theater (in my mind at least) should be.

Anyway, the character that I’ll be playing is Ilya Ilyich Telegin, or Waffles, as he’s called by the rest of the characters, on account of the many pockmarks on his face. Get the title now? I mean, I’m waffling too, I guess, but I’m also Waffles, so…I’m Waffle-ing. Maybe that was a bit forced. Whatever the case, I’m looking forward to exploring Telegin and how he interacts with everyone else, because although he’s unfailingly cheery for large portions of the play, there are times (the beginning of act IV for instance) when he shows a deeper side to himself, part of him that doubts and fears the world he lives in.

And on that cheery note, I take my leave. For now. No, wait, actually. One more thing: THE SET IS INCREDIBLE OH MY GOODNESS.