...another bites the dust....and another one down and another down and another one bites the dust....
Went to see "King Lear" last night and was not disappointed. Our M.Litt students put on the production and some of the best actors in the program were in it. I was duly impressed and was not even overly distracted by the presence of the new director of said program, who is a genius and fairly cute, as well. Since it was performed at Blackfriar's, Roomie and I were the ultimate geeks/fangirls/excited by fight choreography and sat on the stage to watch.
From this I reaped audience participation bits - always fun, especially when the actor doing it is quite good friends with me - and a flower, bestowed upon me by the Insane King Lear. I recommend Blackfriar's highly. 'Tis a fun place to go.
This week will involve a lot of theatre - tonight is the opening of the one-acts called "Louisville", and Roomie convinced me to miss tomorrow night (she'll do front of house duties for me, since she knows how) to see 'The Witch', at Blackfriar's. I dislike shirking responsibility, but it's the last night and my favorite actor goes through the whole show sans shirt.
Yes, I am that shallow.
In any case, the theatre will be my life this weekend (surprise surprise, eh?) and I'm also going to be sending in my application to Camp Krislund this week. I need to figure out my summer and soon.
On a lighter note, I have my classes chosen for fall semester. Choral Conducting, Psychology as a Natural Science, Choir, Voice Diction for Theatre, Great Plays, Madrigals, and voice lessons. Oh, and Senior Project, which isn't actually a class, but will take up my life for the entire semester. I have yet to know what play it'll be, or whether I will be acting or doing stage makeup for my project. Acting is my first choice, of course, but who knows what could happen? Neither of the plays chosen may be good for me and I could possibly become horribly maimed pre-show and I could lose all of my acting ability suddenly and with no warning or.....
Well. So much for that lighter note. I am excited for the classes I'm taking, but am disappointed that I won't be able to take an anthroplogy class that looked fairly awesome. It interferes with Voice Diction for Theatre, unfortunately.
It also turns out that I may have a Real Job next semester. KA is graduating this year and leaving her choir directing post at a local church. They'll be looking for a replacement and I asked her to please mention my name - it's only two days a week and pays three hundred dollars a month. Which, when it comes down to it, that's a month's rent with an extra hundred for me to save/spend/use on useful things. So keep your fingers crossed for me.
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Fingers are crossed. It's funny you should be going to see King Lear since I had to write an essay about Ran (Akira Kurosawa's take on it) recently. I trust that your performance didn't involve huge burning castles and color-coded samurai.
Unfortunately, no. Though that would have been fairly awesome.
What this production DID have was some fairly awesome fight sequences - stave, anyone? And broadsword. And, intruigingly enough, a group of three using short, thick sticks (one in each hand) in three-way combat. It was really neat to view closely.
On stage? I must say, that's pretty cool. I've yet to see a stage production of anything with weapon choreography. And staff-fighting? Damn. As someone who's done a bit of training with the staff, I wish I could have been there.
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