Captain Kirk in the Cortex

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It’s easy to get caught up the accent. The play takes place in medieval England after all. The characters cannot sound like extras from the Jersey Shore. Even so, you can go too far in the other direction. Entranced with how you are saying something, you can lose sight of the message itself. At rehearsal, I am trying to deliver a line. It’s a moment of dramatic tension toward the end of Act 1. In my head, I’m aiming for Gandalf in LOTR but what came out was a little bit more like this.  Needless to say, LOTR had to go. 

What else is rattling around in our heads and how much of it is evenly uniquely our own? Having grown up a Southern California Valley girl, I’ve been mystified when others have asked me, more than once, “Are you from the Chicago area?” Something in the way I talk, they’ve said sounds a little Chicago-ish.  I’ll take their word for it. I’ve never set foot in the city, but my father grew up just outside of Chicago. I’ve picked up souvenirs from a city I’ve never been to, and didn’t even know it! Chicago has sort of occupied my inner Wall Street. What else is squatting on my cerebral cortex? Don’t know, but it’s going to be fun finding out.