Well.
It is quite a while since I have last updated here. Not that that's really anything new.
Revenger's Tragedy was an unholy delight. I played Vindici (aka the eponymous Revenger [ha. That's how the word is used in a sentence, Coopers]). When the cast list went up I was so excited I fell out of my chair and bit a friend's thigh. So, I'm weird and bitey, as well as incredibly lucky to have the opportunities I have. Not everything about the production was perfect, which was sad; I really really really wish that everyone involved was having as good a time with it as I was.
Fall semester this year was really my "I am turning into Janet Carter" semester. Well, more the winter in general. It wasn't until spring that I studied the Romance of the Rose, as well as continuing with Greek, and not to mention Revenger's.
This spring I took an acting course, my first real serious *study* of this thing I do alllllll the time. Probably the most memorable moment of it, for me, was when a friend (my Hippolito from Revenger's) and I did a scene from Pinter's "Betrayal". The first time we ran it for the class, we agreed we weren't done with it. But then the instructor put it back on stage, and pushed us to keep the emotional intensity, wouldn't let us back down. I ended up literally trembling from the emotional tension, and afterwards broke down crying (I think I had also had a midterm that day, and was somewhat stressed to begin with). It was... amazing. I love acting.
Shakes did The Merry Wives of Windsor this spring, and I was Nym, aka the Looming Cowboy. My director had strange notions sometimes. But it was a lot of fun, particularly as I finally got to really interact with the person who was my Henrik and Brutus, and directed Revenger's but with whom I hadn't really gotten to act.
Um. And this summer, I'm going to the BADA Midsummer in Oxford program. Which means I will be spending a month in Oxford, England, living at BALLIOL COLLEGE, studying acting. Oh, and Derek Jacobi is scheduled to be a special guest. And I leave for this in a week and a half. I'm pretty excited, and I think I would be more so, except my brain is having trouble wrapping itself around this concept. It's simply too much awesome to comprehend.
So, yeah. Life goes on. I'm going to be a senior this year, for which I am not nearly ready. While being occasionally unspeakably horrible, college has in general pretty much been the best time of my life, and I'm not nearly ready to let that end. So here's to a fabulous senior year!
Revenger's Tragedy was an unholy delight. I played Vindici (aka the eponymous Revenger [ha. That's how the word is used in a sentence, Coopers]). When the cast list went up I was so excited I fell out of my chair and bit a friend's thigh. So, I'm weird and bitey, as well as incredibly lucky to have the opportunities I have. Not everything about the production was perfect, which was sad; I really really really wish that everyone involved was having as good a time with it as I was.
Fall semester this year was really my "I am turning into Janet Carter" semester. Well, more the winter in general. It wasn't until spring that I studied the Romance of the Rose, as well as continuing with Greek, and not to mention Revenger's.
This spring I took an acting course, my first real serious *study* of this thing I do alllllll the time. Probably the most memorable moment of it, for me, was when a friend (my Hippolito from Revenger's) and I did a scene from Pinter's "Betrayal". The first time we ran it for the class, we agreed we weren't done with it. But then the instructor put it back on stage, and pushed us to keep the emotional intensity, wouldn't let us back down. I ended up literally trembling from the emotional tension, and afterwards broke down crying (I think I had also had a midterm that day, and was somewhat stressed to begin with). It was... amazing. I love acting.
Shakes did The Merry Wives of Windsor this spring, and I was Nym, aka the Looming Cowboy. My director had strange notions sometimes. But it was a lot of fun, particularly as I finally got to really interact with the person who was my Henrik and Brutus, and directed Revenger's but with whom I hadn't really gotten to act.
Um. And this summer, I'm going to the BADA Midsummer in Oxford program. Which means I will be spending a month in Oxford, England, living at BALLIOL COLLEGE, studying acting. Oh, and Derek Jacobi is scheduled to be a special guest. And I leave for this in a week and a half. I'm pretty excited, and I think I would be more so, except my brain is having trouble wrapping itself around this concept. It's simply too much awesome to comprehend.
So, yeah. Life goes on. I'm going to be a senior this year, for which I am not nearly ready. While being occasionally unspeakably horrible, college has in general pretty much been the best time of my life, and I'm not nearly ready to let that end. So here's to a fabulous senior year!