Metanoia

Metanoia was the second play I performed in. But Metanoia was not your average play where they give you a script at the audition. First of all, we didn't have a script, and second, of all, we didn't have auditions. Metanoia was a collaborative project, meaning that the actors in the play were supposed to, along with the director create the content of the play. Let me just emphasize that this was my second play. Going in I knew I was up for a challenge because I had to take up two roles, an actress, and a creator. Along the way, we the actors had to come two times a week to improvise scenes and from there get the content. We then gathered the content into a script that followed an action sequence.  Metanoia was about a girl that gets lost at a senior prom trip and her group of friends are trying to recollect the previous night's events to find out why and where she had escaped to. Each one of us created their own characters based upon the improvisational exercises we had on rehearsals. I was Lola, a feminist girl that is overshadowed by her brother, her mother is abused by her father and her brother doesn't want to acknowledge it. Lola's brother Andre is very popular and fails to acknowledge her much. The play was set in a minimalistic box that changed colors according to the time (present or past).