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Weeek Seven

Posted on March 25th, 2007 by tilly26.
Categories: Theatre Journals for 100.

Seven. Already. This is ridic. How is time going by so quickly? I hate dead lines. (haha dead lines… get it?) I feel like I just finished writing my last vineblog yesterday.
What did the digital watch say to his mom? “Look mom no hands.”
I got the shock of my life yesterday, I was reading up on Monash Uni and the head of one of the halls’ name was Sam Worrall! So I read this thing written by this mysterious Sam Worrall and it was quite witty and full of random references so I was like … Did Miss Worrall go to Monash? And is she working there now as a head of Drama or something? Then I saw a photo and this Sam Worrall was a 25 year old male, so I’m under the assumption it’s not her. Haha. But for a moment there I was severely tripped out.

ANYHOOO ….

Acting
Finally got my script down this week. I only know the first void scene though. I think I’ll be able to learn the last scene pretty quickly too. I find a lot easier to remember line when they’re for things that I really go all out for, like in the first scene with the sarcasm and the personal stuff and the yelling and all the rest of it. And in the last scene it’ll be easy to remember as it’s just josh and I talking so I don’t have to remember who my lines come after or anything like that plus it’s a big acting scene that I go all out with and there’s a real sense of urgency to it for the Guide. I don’t know it’s just how my brain works. Whereas in the other scenes where I just say things like “go on”, “yes”, “what do you mean?”, “really?” etc it’s hard to remember where they come or to get motivated to learn them or to remember what the blocking is on each of them. I’ll get there.
It was great to have the lights se up this week, I loved it. It really increased the focus and intensity of all of the cast. Loved it. I hope we can start having lighting and audio in every lesson now, that would make a huge difference to how the rehearsals go. Burak said to me the other day as I was leaving class that Jarrod told him all of us actors need to choose some theme music for our character, so I’ve been thinking about what theme music the Guide should have and I reckon she shouldn’t have any at all. I mean there’s no real place in the whole script where she’s alone on stage at all, I think it would spoil the atmosphere if the was audio involved in her big intro at the start. Plus, on a more character based note, the Guide has no past, no memories, she is a blank to herself, so her experience in the Void would not be accompanied by any music, because she has no idea who she is.

Directing
Now that I’ve finished blocking all the Voids and Cooper and I have collectively finished blocking the whole play, all that needs to happen is tidy-ups. And now that we all have an idea of exactly how the show shapes up, and have a better understanding of the style and of all of the characters, we may change some things. But I guess other than that the main bulk of my job as assistant director is over. Which is good as it lowers my work load but its also sort of bad because I really enjoyed doing what I did and I’ll probably never get the opportunity to have such a major role in creating something like this again. And it was a fantastic opportunity and 100 is something that I just know I’ll be proud to have my name associated with when it goes to production. I think we all will. Directing is the shizz. I’ve wanted to tear my hair out at times, but I love it. I’m so glad I got to do acting and directing, thank you so much for that Coops.

So yeah, I guess that’s it for now. Toodles all.

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