How to understand these paragraph from an essay? I need help.
Hi greetings to all forum members, I just need help again for those people who have a good understanding of English essay. For writers out there who knows this essay or who understand this please help me.
This essay is entitled "Why First Night Seem Like Last Night" by Cornelia Otis Skinner. This is about the stage fright of an actress who will play the lead role for the first time and this some paragraphs that I can't understand: (this is the paragraph 16th-18th)
" The reading starts and you have the further feeling that you've completely forgotten how to act--if not, indeed, how to read. But then, here and there, among the circles of readers, you catch a fleeting expression of anguished uncertainty, the nervous clearing of throat, the rapid trembling o the script, and are comforted.
During the week of rehearsal, stage fright lets up, thanks to hard work and fatigue. And it's not too bad in the interim of road tryouts because of cuts, rewrites, new staging and similar pandemonium. But eventually there looms the prospect of the Broadway opening.
Speaking for myself, I think this mightn't be quite so bad were it not for the melancholy behavior of my dearest and nearest. My son has the manner of one who has just learned that his mother is not long for this world; my cook, with an expression of acute compassion, talks in whispers and tiptoes in with little messes of broth, while my husband spend hours of demonstrable indigestion at his club and keeps calling me with orders to rest and not talk on the phone"
I really need your help, especially with the last paragraph. Thank you so much.
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"Why First Night Seem s Like Last Night" <<<<< Get the title right! Here's the general idea. " The reading starts and you have the further feeling that you've completely forgotten how to act--if not, indeed, how to read.
- "Why First Night Seem s Like Last Night" <<<<< Get the title right!
- Here's the general idea.
- " The reading starts and you have the further feeling that you've completely forgotten how to act--if not, indeed, how to read.
- But then, here and there, among the circles of readers, you catch a fleeting expression of anguished uncertainty, the nervous clearing of throat, the rapid trembling o the script, and are comforted.
- At the start of rehearsals, the actors sit in a circle and read the play aloud.
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"Why First Night Seems Like Last Night" <<<<< Get the title right!
Here's the general idea.
" The reading starts and you have the further feeling that you've completely forgotten how to act--if not, indeed, how to read. But then, here and there, among the circles of readers, you catch a fleeting expression of anguished uncertainty, the nervous
0Thank you for answering. I'm sorry I wasn't able to underline the most part that I can't understand. It's mor of difficult word or line that the author says like..
From second Paragraph: the pandemonium she is refering too.
From third Paragraph:
The second, Third and Fourth sentence. Because she is using some symbols that I can't understand.
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