Footloose, Outcome 1
Around halfway into Footloose rehearsals (late February to early March) I was coming into my role and beginning to get more comfortable with playing such a drastically different role. I’d begun to work both physically and mentally in the headspace of Chuck Cranston. Working with this character allowed me to explore myself and learn more about myself. For example, even as my character was abusive and violent I was maintaining my moral compass. While it wasn’t especially hard in the grand scheme of things, I was still able to explore ideas of feminism and tolerance through my performance. It’s funny that playing such a polarizing awful human being pushed me to be a better person through speculating on my actions onstage. For example, there was a scene where I had to come onstage and drag the female lead offstage with an implied beating afterward. It was a terrible scene but I was able to use something that stemmed from such different beliefs from mine to strengthen my own beliefs (specif...