In Theatre History I got my paper back! And I did well! Which was great because I was worried. We talked about The Maids, which was awful! Genet is not my thing at all...I thought it was too talky and absolutely ridiculous. I mean I loved Chairs and that's theatre of the absurd too. But the class was still fun because Chris Cook is a genius...I wish I could better explain this man to you.
During break I worked on my Measure for Measure scene, which is getting really cool. I climb under the table, and he backs me into a corner, and like pins me down. It's intense. Then I decided to take a nice 1 hour nap. It was great.
Mick's class today was a little disappointing, but I think it is just because I didn't do as well as I expected, and he wasn't in the best of moods. We played El Stupido, and then did weird movement exercises including the one where we had to swing our arms opposite ways! Oh Julia's and 131! We sang Yando, and then did undulations and walked around creating different characters and also by moving the placement of our arms to make characters. Last we did masks, but he switched it up, and after we found the characters, he made our characters meet at a horse race. He was unhappy with everyone's characters. Apparently mine had two shrill a voice (I was an obnoxious southern type woman) and he wanted different levels, but he provoked everyone else to get quiet or louder, and he didn't help me at all, which was frustrating. I mean I want help if I can improve, but he didn't seem to want to help today.
Anywho, left that and went straight to the show Money at a warehouse with Nathalie....coolest fricken piece of theatre ever! It was FULL of the most amazing spectacle and it was interactive! It was creeping, and you moved through the show to different levels of this crazy machine. They had so many special effects-fireworks, see through ground and ceiling, a pool in the middle of the floor, people hanging from the ceiling, walls moving etc. They keep asking us questions that no one wanted to answer, which was hysterical, and we got to play with balls from ball pits (you know those when you were little). They also gave us free Champagne! And we got to take part in a voting process. It was just SUPER SUPER cool! The whole plot of the play was very futuristic. The message was that we will be so obsessed with money we will start forgetting about love, family, and the reason for living. Machines will take over our life, and eventually it won't be worth living. I mean the acting was good and so was the play, but the spectacle/audience participation was unlike any other. Probably the most interesting theatre experience in my life. On the tube on the way home, I lost Nathalie to a closing door, but I did end up siting across from a hot guy, or rather, he moved to sit across from me. He was wearing plaid! But I couldn't talk to him because he had his headphones in. I kept trying not to look right at him, and clearly he was doing the same thing because we ended up locking eyes and kinda smiled about it, and then I had to get off the tube :( who knows what could have been...lol
Now I have one more Friday of classes to get through, and that is tomorrow, so I am off to bed! Not to mention we have to make up a High Comedy class tomorrow till 4 and of course I am called until then for my 1 line scene! UGH!
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