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As a director Catriona constantly encourages us actors to make bold choices and try crazy new things. \u00a0As I work on the show I really feel like I have an opportunity to put forth ideas and contribute to the creative process. \u00a0I have to admit that with all this freedom, I felt a little overwhelmed in the first few weeks of rehearsal.<\/p>\n In the beginning I just didn\u2019t know where to begin. \u00a0Slowly I started incorporating ideas from Wicca and Druidism with varying degrees of success. \u00a0During my research I went to a few church services, spent time with a shaman and watched videos of pagan rituals. \u00a0We are still a few weeks away from opening night and I finally feel like the foundation of our un-named order has been constructed and I am excited to watch it evolve.<\/p>\n — Barbara Kozicki<\/p>\n Note:\u00a0Barbara is in her intermediate year of the BFA Acting Program and will be performing on the Telus Studio Theatre stage for the first time in Romeo & Juliet which opens January 21, 2010. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Barbara is an accomplished fire dancer, poi performer and corporate entertainer. Previous credits include The Laramie Project (Theatre at UBC), Little House on the Prairie (Disney) and Comeback Season (Accent Entertainment). She can next be seen in Theatre at UBC\u2019s production of Arms and the Man. http:\/\/www.firedancer.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the first of a series of guest posts from the Romeo & Juliet company BFA Acting Candidate\u00a0Barbara Kozicki talks about the rehearsal process: I was quite simply thrilled when the role of Friar Lawrence was offered to me. Right from the start Catriona Leger, the director, decided I would not pretend to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7285,1243,6635],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-shakespeare","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/theatre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>