How to not be so anxious over my role in a play?
Hello, Okay so this is a lot to unpack here but please stay with me as I have no way to cope. So right now I'm currently on summer vacation before school starts next August, you would think this would be a great time to relax and get everything together before the school year starts, right? Wrong! My drama teacher decided that it would be a great time to post the castings for the school play next year- we're doing Romeo and Juliet (ugh) and West Side Story (yay!). I really wanted to do WSS since it's my dad's favorite movie of all time, and I really like to sing and dance. However I got cast as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, and I'm super distraught about it. What could my drama see in him (a fat, old, boring, rich guy) that she sees in me? (a slim, young, upbeat, socialist girl) So far she has put out two scripts for Romeo and Juliet that are both over 100 pages long and memorize both of them within less than a month! I can't even enjoy my summer vacation because the ever looming thought of needing to learn all these words are on my mind and I'm constantly anxious about it, I've even started to break down crying and shaking just thinking about having to do it. What do I do?