I did some search on MySpace. I typed in the search “Chornobyl” and a bunch of stuff came up. A lot of people write about the incident and I also found some people who are personally affected by it.

One couple for example adopted two children from Chornobyl. Find out for yourself by going to MySpace.

I also found this link:

http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=293

More links are coming. My computer froze so I’ll be back…

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…Okay, I’m back with more links:

A Band that is influenced by the diseaster:

http://www.myspace.com/manequinn

myspacetv:

http://vids.myspace.com/…

More links:

http://blog.myspace.com…

http://www.myspace.com/herefordchernobyl

and more to come later…

It’s been a week since we performed at the Empty Stage and that chicken song won’t go out of my head.  HEEEELP!  I  wake up with it and I go to bed with the song and thorughout the day it’s constantly, and I mean constantly, in my head.

Todays rehearsal was so much fun! I think I laughed some tears

I wish I could see the production as an audience member. I got goosebumps a few times during the run-through.

Cindy said that she got emotionally involved when she watched the rehearsal. Cindy read the book a million times, she knows some of the lines by heart and if she still gets moved, that says a lot.

I’m looking forward to performing tomorrow night. I’m nervous but I’m also very excited!

This cast is pretty amazing. I feel completely safe with everyone. I felt safe just crying my eyes out yesterday. I was crying from exhaustion. I felt safe today falling asleep while we were running lines.

That’s all we did today at rehearsal. Running lines. We ran them italian style, which is the speed read. We ran off book and on book. We red a few scenes separately and we also red the entire play from beginning to end stuttering, trying to remember our cues and our lines. It was great!

Tonight was very casual. No acting. Just rehearsing lines. And I felt very comfortable with everyone. It was a great rehearsal. And I got a shut-eye as well

Yesterday I had no time to work on Chornobyl.  I’ve rehearsed for another play, that will open in October, then I had to do some VO work for that other play.  After that, I ran to vote at my Neighborhood Council election and then I was off to a Women In Theatre Quarterly Mixer that I was hosting.  I didn’t get home until 11 pm. Dead tired!

I didn’t read the book, I didn’t pick up the script, I didn’t practice my lines. Nothing. The only thing I did was find in the morning a pair of thick knitting needles and some thick yarn. And I knitted three rows in the “library.”

I liked the idea of knitting during Anna’s interview.  Cindy loved it so much, she asked me if I could knit something 10 feet long. Ha! She said that it’s not necessary but she loves the visual of Anna knitting an endless scarf.

I love the idea as well and even though Cindy said it’s not important, for me it is. I want to make the directors vision true. It’s her play and I love to be directed. Not bossed around. But directed. And Cindy does it well. So I’m going to try to knit an endless scarf for Sundays performance.

So much to do! I hope I’ll know my lines tonight at rehearsal. I’m really nervous. Only 4 days left. And I’m worried about my cues. I’m worried about remembering my lines. I’m just a nervous wreck today. Aaaarrrrggghhh!!!

Anna Petrovna Badaeva loves nature. And so do I. Cindy offered me Anna’s role because she new that Anna and I are very compatible.So why do I struggle with my character? Why do I struggle with my lines? Why do I have such difficulty to connect to some words? Because I did not live through the disaster?

Tonight, after rehearsal I rode home on my bicycle and four full grown coyotes crossed my path. I slowed down and followed them. They stopped and looked at me. They were curious. I held my distance. I watched them and they watched me.

Then three of them started playing with each other. They looked beautiful. They let me watch them. And when I decided to go, one of them ran ahead of me and the other three were following me while they were chasing leaves on the ground.

I was so happy with them, I had to laugh out loud. I thought of Anna. I thought of her and I thought, this is how she would laugh. This is how she would feel amongst the animals. I think I truly found the connection with her tonight. I found the connection we share. To the animals. To earth.

What will happen to the part of her life that I can’t connect to? Who knows. I’ll keep looking.