When You Gonna Love You As Much As I Do?
Well, I got an A+ in drama 301, meaning apparently I wasn't sucking as bad as I thought. I think it was my written work that saved me, the A on the essay and then A+ on objectives. What she did was average our marks and then bump us up a grade for our effort. So my work averaged me out as an A, but the "effort" mark put me up to the A+. Which is awesome for my GPA, especially since I'm going to fail my sociology exam tomorrow. Fucking prof with his fucking ambiguity and not fucking teaching us anything. Nice guy, but quite possibly the worst prof I've ever had. I think he only reads the first two pages of our essays too, and the only grade he gives out for essays is B- to B+, without any explaination as to the docked marks. Asswipe.
Anyway, backtracking. The show was, in my opinion, brutal. Or my performance was. But as Potts said in my meeting with her today (actually, she wrote this on my marking sheet): "You're your own worst enemy - remember you ahd to carry the play - without your character being strong/clear the play doesn't work. Therefore, if the play worked, you worked." Potts' actor friend, Val, also gave me the note that she thought I was "strong physically" and my "character was well rooted. I just need to gain confidence in the vocal area... well, confidence in general. "Courage, I say". I love that woman, she was awesome.
But, Potts isn't giving me the role I want in next semester's show!!!! Fuck that shit!! Okay, maybe I've been spoiled by her up to this point, and I was hoping that would continue, but, according to her she doesn't want to "waste my talent on the M.C.". Whatever, the M.C. requires a helluva lot of talent... well, if she wants it played well, anyway. She also said she wanted someone "younger, with more of an activist attitude" for it. I think I know who she's giving it to. She's okay. Strong actor, but she's a first year, goddammit! Granted, that's probably what people were saying about me when I got the role of Miranda last year. Still... if I'm going to UVic, I'm going to be a small fish in a big pond again, and this is my last opportunity for a "lead" type role in a while, and I was hoping to end St. Mary's with a bang in the drama department. Well, all the same, I know that I have at least two allies in the Calgary theatre scene should I choose to come back after UVic, and the same two are seeing what they can swing to get me into UVic. God bless Potts and Finn. I don't know what I'd do without them.
Although I may kill Finn if he clicks his pen at me anymore. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS FUCKING FINAL!!!! ARGH!
Righto. Cheers to the Theatre, Viva La Vie Boheme, Defy Gravity and so on.
Ciao.
Anyway, backtracking. The show was, in my opinion, brutal. Or my performance was. But as Potts said in my meeting with her today (actually, she wrote this on my marking sheet): "You're your own worst enemy - remember you ahd to carry the play - without your character being strong/clear the play doesn't work. Therefore, if the play worked, you worked." Potts' actor friend, Val, also gave me the note that she thought I was "strong physically" and my "character was well rooted. I just need to gain confidence in the vocal area... well, confidence in general. "Courage, I say". I love that woman, she was awesome.
But, Potts isn't giving me the role I want in next semester's show!!!! Fuck that shit!! Okay, maybe I've been spoiled by her up to this point, and I was hoping that would continue, but, according to her she doesn't want to "waste my talent on the M.C.". Whatever, the M.C. requires a helluva lot of talent... well, if she wants it played well, anyway. She also said she wanted someone "younger, with more of an activist attitude" for it. I think I know who she's giving it to. She's okay. Strong actor, but she's a first year, goddammit! Granted, that's probably what people were saying about me when I got the role of Miranda last year. Still... if I'm going to UVic, I'm going to be a small fish in a big pond again, and this is my last opportunity for a "lead" type role in a while, and I was hoping to end St. Mary's with a bang in the drama department. Well, all the same, I know that I have at least two allies in the Calgary theatre scene should I choose to come back after UVic, and the same two are seeing what they can swing to get me into UVic. God bless Potts and Finn. I don't know what I'd do without them.
Although I may kill Finn if he clicks his pen at me anymore. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS FUCKING FINAL!!!! ARGH!
Righto. Cheers to the Theatre, Viva La Vie Boheme, Defy Gravity and so on.
Ciao.