Abriged journal entries weeks? end of Q1
Blog, I have been neglecting you lately. To catch up I am going to abridge most everything I have done since I last gave you a real update. We started to work with the text, Our Country’s Good. One of the things we did for that is we waited. On stage. In order to build character. Everyone was waiting for something, we adlib monologued about it. Many created a fictitious situation to wait in, the bus stop, in class, on a curb. I waited right where I was, in the room across the hall. I was legitimately waiting. As I described, my gut told me that my reply would never come. In truth it still hasn’t. I am no longer waiting though. We got up and confronted the source of our waiting. Mine was the only one that was intangible. At first all my partner could do was echo back everything I said. Nobody really knew what I was waiting for, except me. One of the pieces of the exercise was that everybody else could edit the scene by pulling an actor aside and giving them background information and advice. My conflict quickly escalated into a war of friends. I guess the situation was is I was confronting my girlfriend about not being there for me, a situation I was mirroring in real life. Her friends, in the scene, were saying how creepy I was, and my friends were saying how much of a slut she was. We never reached the resolution I was hoping for, again a parallel trend. I think we were cut off by the bell. That is all for now, as it is the end of the quarter Jane will be all stressy and whatever, but it will all come to pass. Also I have to get to One Acts, I am Assistant to the House Manager. Also Microsoft Word refuses to accept the words “monologue” and “stressy” as real words which bugs me. I will try and insert a poll to the blog, Should those be counted as words? Colin Sanders 11/5/09
November 9, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Ummm. Microsoft Word does too accept monologue as a word, I just tested it. As far as stressy…I don’t think it should be a weird word, because it’s not.