I can sleep when I'm dead.
I'm in one of those stressy periods where I ricochet rapidly between "OK, this isn't that much work, it's totally manageable" and "OMG HOW AM I POSSIBLY GOING TO EVER FINISH ALL THIS?!?!" Tasks to be accomplished before the end of the semester (December 11) include:
-Researching and compiling actor packets for Freshwater, a play going up in January at the company where I'm interning - finished yesterday! (Pending approval)
-Miscellaneous reading assignments.
-Working with a playwright on a new play she has written.
-2 final papers, one of 5 pages and one of 8-10.
-Final directing scene, which I must write/find/whatever, cast, and rehearse outside of class.
-Dramaturgical casebook - this is the BIG one, and it's due the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It basically involves becoming a complete expert on a play of my choosing: researching the social/historical context, the playwright's biography and other work, prior productions, criticism, reviews, etc. AND presenting a pretty thorough proposal for a hypothetical new production of it - production aesthetic, casting recommendations, choices of director and designers, etc. I've seen an example of a completed project. It was a 2-inch 3-ring binder FULL of stuff. Also, I picked a German play, so lots of my research is involving German reviews and criticism. I haven't really used German in about 4 years. Bit of a lapse in judgment, there.
Other commitments include:
-Working a strike/load-in at one of Columbia's theatres for 10 hours tomorrow and 12 on Monday.
-Classes (obviously).
-Going home for Thanksgiving.
-Contra dancing tonight and at the Rochester Thanksgiving Dance Weekend (technically, of course, these could be sacrificed, but then I would be a much less happy person).
-Seeing miscellaneous plays like, last night, 36-24-36, a cheerful little piece about eating disorders.
I shouldn't write entries like this because all of a sudden I've been pushed back into the how-will-I-ever-finish-this mode. Oops.
-Researching and compiling actor packets for Freshwater, a play going up in January at the company where I'm interning - finished yesterday! (Pending approval)
-Miscellaneous reading assignments.
-Working with a playwright on a new play she has written.
-2 final papers, one of 5 pages and one of 8-10.
-Final directing scene, which I must write/find/whatever, cast, and rehearse outside of class.
-Dramaturgical casebook - this is the BIG one, and it's due the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It basically involves becoming a complete expert on a play of my choosing: researching the social/historical context, the playwright's biography and other work, prior productions, criticism, reviews, etc. AND presenting a pretty thorough proposal for a hypothetical new production of it - production aesthetic, casting recommendations, choices of director and designers, etc. I've seen an example of a completed project. It was a 2-inch 3-ring binder FULL of stuff. Also, I picked a German play, so lots of my research is involving German reviews and criticism. I haven't really used German in about 4 years. Bit of a lapse in judgment, there.
Other commitments include:
-Working a strike/load-in at one of Columbia's theatres for 10 hours tomorrow and 12 on Monday.
-Classes (obviously).
-Going home for Thanksgiving.
-Contra dancing tonight and at the Rochester Thanksgiving Dance Weekend (technically, of course, these could be sacrificed, but then I would be a much less happy person).
-Seeing miscellaneous plays like, last night, 36-24-36, a cheerful little piece about eating disorders.
I shouldn't write entries like this because all of a sudden I've been pushed back into the how-will-I-ever-finish-this mode. Oops.