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chekhov? you are a strange man.
Sep. 21st, 2006 08:01 pmToday I had my acting class for the first time...I'm the only non-freshman there, but they all seem like okay kids from what I know so far. I think it'll be good, with not a lot of outside work--& that'll be mostly scene work, later--so just what I need. (Tomorrow is stage combat!)
This afternoon I spent with Cozy, in her dorm room, reading through the scene for the auditions & talking about theater. Tonight we had a business meeting, as it were, with us & Andrew, Andy & Matt. We're starting our student theater group, properly, as a club, & we're going to put on the one-acts this year because there wouldn't be any otherwise, & I want more theater on this campus, dammit! What we do is good, I won't deny it--but there are so many kids on this campus (you can see them at the one-act auditions from last year, or even today's audition) that want to do theater--any sort of theater--& simply don't have any opportunity to do it. So we're going to make those opportunities, & then we're going to make people make them for themselves. I am thrilled about this & I want it to work so badly. I can feel a theater-organizing attack coming on...it's like the sort of work I did for the Bathhouse but more. Fabulous.
Also auditions were amazing (except for this one girl...who I am not going to name or gossip about becauseI am a virtuous little girl we did enough of that at dinner...who honestly looked as though every moment on the stage were painful, & was far too melodramatic, but seriously so). Everyone did good readings...& instead of making me sick of the play, hearing the same scenes over & over only made me listen deeper to them, to reach further to them and, I think, understand them more. Just goes to show how amazing (though weird) Chekhov is. I really, really want to play Masha, though I don't mind any part if I can be in it. Whoo. Callback list posted Monday morning...
I feel like I have lived a week within myself in the last forty-eight hours or so. I think now I can settle a little into the pace life actually should be, or something closer to it.
This afternoon I spent with Cozy, in her dorm room, reading through the scene for the auditions & talking about theater. Tonight we had a business meeting, as it were, with us & Andrew, Andy & Matt. We're starting our student theater group, properly, as a club, & we're going to put on the one-acts this year because there wouldn't be any otherwise, & I want more theater on this campus, dammit! What we do is good, I won't deny it--but there are so many kids on this campus (you can see them at the one-act auditions from last year, or even today's audition) that want to do theater--any sort of theater--& simply don't have any opportunity to do it. So we're going to make those opportunities, & then we're going to make people make them for themselves. I am thrilled about this & I want it to work so badly. I can feel a theater-organizing attack coming on...it's like the sort of work I did for the Bathhouse but more. Fabulous.
Also auditions were amazing (except for this one girl...who I am not going to name or gossip about because
I feel like I have lived a week within myself in the last forty-eight hours or so. I think now I can settle a little into the pace life actually should be, or something closer to it.
