Moon Diary – Entries #4 and #5

By Grace Gonglewski, >prescription Josie in A Moon for the Misbegotten

12/31/2010
eating sleeping dreaming moon.

I speak in an Irish brogue to my family. Haven’t gone on Facebook or had a glass of wine in weeks. I fall asleep with the script in my hands and my peepers on my nose and my teeth whitening thingy on my teeth. I am whitening my teeth for Josie – it says in the script she has even white teeth and coarse black hair. Got a perm last week and will get it colored black next week. I swear I never do anything to my hair unless a theatre pays for it. My daughter is starving for my attention, my husband is so ready for a break when I walk in the door.

I wish I had more time to just run lines, but I have no time off stage! I go to the theatre and stay all day- pack a lunch and nap during breaks. Ten and twelve hour days this week.
no life but moon….

1/2/2011
Feel sick. Throat sore, head splitting. lines lines lines. I feel like I am behind a train trying to jump on, it is just out of reach. I can’t even do my work really because the damn thing is so big, I am just trying to keep up, just trying to…it is overwhelming.
Dirt all over my legs and feet, fingernails. I guess I will have to bathe nightly when I get home.

Alison [Roberts, Costume Designer] opened up my blouse, moved things, shifted things. Meredith [McKewen, Properties Master]’s props are amazing- really this whole crew is astoundingly talented. And Courtney [Riggar, Production Manager] keeps it all running smoothly.

feel so behind!