acting? thank you!

Last night was my first-ever acting class and it was SO much fun. Oh, and get this: I was called on to perform an improvisational exercise with two other students and I didn't stink up the joint and/or die of a heart attack/piss my pants on the spot as I originally feared.

The exercise stressed the importance of objective. Three chairs were set up on the stage and each seat had an assigned role (later we rotated chairs and roles). First chair: A person expressing an emotional need. Second chair: The antagonist. Basically, whoever sat in this seat had to act like a cranky, unreasonable dick/beaver and deny any and all requests the person in the first chair was making. The third chair was a benevolent Mother Teresa-like role whose mission was to provide emotional support to the first person without actually solving that person's need, i.e. offering to give money, a place to stay, etc.

After the exercise was over, the instructor asked each of us which role we found to be the most difficult. The other two students immediately pointed to the first chair. Not me. See, in real life, I'm loathe to ask for help but in this situation, I had no trouble begging my classmates for money to help me cover the rent.

Oddly enough, the most challenging was yours truly trying to act like Mother Teresa.

Oh, fuck you.