{"id":167,"date":"2004-05-31T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/05\/31\/building_character\/"},"modified":"2004-05-31T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T11:44:54","slug":"building_character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/05\/31\/building_character\/","title":{"rendered":"Building character"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again, and this month blork<\/a> and Martine<\/a> are asking the impossible…
\nMay’s monkey is to write about a time when you were out of character. All I can think of are those times when I wish I could have been, but wasn’t able to. Times when I couldn’t keep the sarcastic remark in check. Or times when I wasn’t petrified to appear alone in front of a microphone – which happens more frequently than one would like, if one is in the entertainment and PR field. Oddly enough, standing alone in front of a classroom full of students rarely freaks me out.
\nOf course, there are those times when I was on stage, and by definition out of character (being “in” another character, that is). Especially when I played Mrs. Baker in ‘The American Dream’ – who strips down to a slip within a minute or two of walking onstage, and spends the balance of the play thus attired.
\nI think the only thing I’ve ever done that truly felt like I wasn’t me was metro busking. Accompanied by two guitar-playing friends, I belted out a few numbers at the Atwater metro station, about a gazillion years ago. ‘Dust in the Wind,’ ‘Wish You Were Here,’ ‘House of the Rising Sun’ – the standard fare. One guy gave me a $20. Despite my apparent critical success, it was a one-off, and while I’m glad I did it, I would never do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time again, and this month blork and Martine are asking the impossible… May’s monkey is to write about a time when you were out of character. All I can think of are those times when I wish I could have been, but wasn’t able to. Times when I couldn’t keep the sarcastic remark … <\/p>\n

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