What I Know About A Backstage Person

When people are frontstage, they are in a public area and are aware of the people watching them, so they alter their behaviors to fit the situation. When people are backstage, they are in a private setting with people they trust, and can behave how they normally do. This is exactly what I witnessed with the nurses. When in a patient’s room, they modify their behavior in order to fit the situation appropriately, and when in the breakroom, surrounded by people they trust, they were able to behave in a less restrictive manner. This proves that everyone is influenced by the social structures of society.

As for socially, I am considered by many to be shy but this is not really the case at all. Rather, I prefer to keep my mouth shut unless I have something I feel needs to be said. One of my pet peeves is people who just say things to either get a rise from others, or if they just talk because they are bored. I choose my friends carefully, and I have a small number of good, close friends, instead of a large number of people I barely know. I have never been one to follow the crowd, not by choice, but after years of feeling like I didn’t quite fit in with many other people, I just gave up. Anyone who couldn’t accept me for the way I am raises no concerns of mine. I do not need people like that in my life.

The front stage is where we are able to control what someone may see. Whereas the back stage is where we are able to let our guard down. Both front and back stage is something we are able to control, how people perceive us is something we can not control.

Since I was young, there was a communication barrier that existed between me and the outside world. My shyness led me to many downfalls on my academic side. Not understanding a topic would mean that I would never be able to clarify any questions that were on my mind. Until around 6th grade, I always considered myself introverted; I had the inability to blend in with strangers, peers and teachers.

I am a strong Introvert and do not like big gatherings, but can deal with them by expending a lot of mental energy. An example of my Introvert status would be trick-or-treating on Halloween. I hated going up and interacting with people to the point I would make my brother handle the interaction and I would just get the candy. If my brother was not going tick-or-treating, then I just stayed at home.

I grew up as an extroverted child. That’s one of the reasons why I was attracted to the stage; it was my domain, my home.

The Stage Manager claims, “There is something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.” By this quote, I believe the Stage manager means that the “something” that is eternal in everyone is the nature of human beings and the significance of their lives. The Stage Manager is talking about how people get caught up in responsibilities and small details in their lives, and how they feel obligated to completing monotonous tasks and chores of their daily lives. In doing this, they may miss the important nature of their existence. Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb complete the same chores every day but dream of traveling and their husbands want to visit Civil War battlefields all the time. The Stage Manager is trying to emphasize how people don’t

The means through which I showed my character was through the tone of voice and the body language directed towards the other person. One the first night of performance my acting was much more skewered to the side of realism, with a stern and authority voice directed towards the characters at the apex club, with body language which was at times antagonising with arms directed to the person or person’s I was speaking to. While I was talking to characters such as Veronica or Jack, a stern yet

The concert was The Third Sunday: To everything there is a Season; the artist was Nathan Kyle Lively. He is the young organist from the east coast he has won three national titles. Kyle began his studies at a young age. Kyle went to church at Sinking Spring Presbyterian in Abingdon Virginia up until April 2015 where he served as a Director of Music Ministries at Trinity United Presbyterian Church he studied organ in Pennsylvania also. He taught piano in his teaching studio at the Falk Lab School. “Kyle currently goes to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Kingsport TN as a director; he led the St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church choir to Washington, DC, on September 11, 2010, to perform for a Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.” (Sons, 2015) Ruth Brown also played in the concert she served at Holy Trinity for eight years up until retirement. She resides in Abingdon Virginia where she is an active member of another church. She still accompanies the choir when she can and plays the piano and the organ duets.

In social settings, I display bravery by initiating conversation. Though this can often cause anxiety, I value meaningful relationships and good vibes so I have accepted that I must initiate in order to get what I want, and over time, I have become more confident in my social skills so it became easier. I am the girl with the bright smile who will greet someone with an enthusiastic “hello.” Through my experiences, I have realized that socializing makes for a great time, allowing people to laugh, smile and learn new things. So, as a Jock, I have found myself approaching people first upon expecting the best outcome of each encounter, rather than waiting around for something that may never happen, like a Puke. Sometimes it is good to live life on the edge.

Throughout many of my journal entries I express the fear of going outside of my comfort zone. This fear I have is the reason why I am not vey social able or outgoing. In many of my reflections I also express the fact that I’m afraid of other people and how they will judge me. Last week in class we learned about how adolescence believe in an imaginary audience. I don’t think I ever really grew out of believing in an imaginary audience. I still constantly think I am the center of people’s attention and not in a good way.

I use to constantly update my personality on what was popular at the time, never caring if my actions truly were coming from me. I used them as a mask, throwing on whichever one I believed people would accept at the time. I was scared of what others may think if they uncovered and found out about the real me. Eventually I took a leap of faith and shed my final mask, which benefited me in numerous ways. As I began to express my true self and speak of the various interests I enjoyed most, I began to accumulate a new group of friends who accepted, and truly cared about the real me. I found that I could carry out much deeper and more meaningful conversations within my new friend group, without having to worry about the judgement that would typically come. I also found that when I spoke on my love for hunting, fishing, automobiles or any of my other hobbies and passions, I found that numerous people began to open up on their similar interests as well. Because of this experience, I began to realize that all it takes is one person to break down a social barrier, and that deep down everyone has interests and passions that they are holding back, and may just be waiting on someone else to open up

Personally, I like to be included wherever I go and do not want to be left out. I always try to achieve a sense of belonging at work, at school, or whatever organization or group that I would likely to be in. Whenever I’m in a room of crowd, I always prefer showing up without much attention, sitting from the back, and listen quietly. I behave in that way not because I just don’t want to be seen but I want to listen and learn about the crowd and situation before I say anything. Though I try to blend in most of the time, I do not really agree with the LSI’s description on Conventional thinker that they lack originality because I’m totally the opposite of that. Though I try to by “low key” at the beginning, my true original self would come out in time. I believe that I developed this thinking style from the influence of my dad because he always said “When you talk a lot, you have more chances to say something wrong. It’s best to listen quietly and say something right once in a while.”

Director “What! I bet everyone is stuck at the statue of liberty and cant get over here.”

 (Fisher, 2007). Social settings and educational settings, professional settings and home settings can all be very different environments and different behaviors can be exhibited in each environment. An individual is most likely to interact differently in a social setting of close friends than they would in a professional setting of