WHERE I APPARENTLY HAVE A THING FOR DRAMA DUDES
Sooooo....today in English about half of my class had to recite monolougues/soliloquies from Romeo and Juliet (HAHAHAHAHA BECAUSE I'M A TRANSFER STUDENT WHO ONLY HAD ABOUT A WEEK'S NOTICE I GOT OUT OF IT, NANANANANANA! My new friends kinda hate me for it xD).
How many people here have seen Bare? (Here is a pretty good version on youtube. It's the one I watched originally and I fell in love with it. It's about these two guys who are in LURVE~ but they're roommates in a Catholic boarding school, so obviously they have to hide it. Um, one of them is kinda iffy on the whole thing, he's afraid of what people[read: his father] would think, and the other I love to death because he just wants to be with Jason and not have to hide it. Peter <3) Well, it's a musical and it's got a play within a play thing going on. They're putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet. (And because a lot of the song lyrics are actual lines form the play it's close to impoosible for me to read those parts without imagining singing.) One of my favorite is Queen Mab. In Act 1 Scene 4 Mercutio talks about Queen Mab, a fairy that causes dreams, and that song is an abridged version of his speech. This and Mercutio's final lines made him my favorite character, and that speech is my favorite part of the book.
Anyways, most of the people were not very good. I mean, I guess they did pretty good, but most of them didn't REALLY have it ALL memorized. But there are these two guys and I'm guessing that they're drama buddies. OH MY GOD, THEY DID AMAZING. The first guy did Queen Mab, and it was amazing and he was so energetic and he is a total performer, and even though he had to kinda pause to remember a couple of times instead of just staying quiet he was all "hold on, I got it" and then continued, and he did it so well, and he was so animated. He acted out what he was saying, like on "pricked from the lazy finger of a maid" he actually mimed plucking something from his fingers, and "long spinner's legs" he stretched his fingers out, and for 'galloped' he ACTUALLY GALLOPED. I don't know why I found this as a good quality, but OH MY GOD. He was just amazing and I would totally go watch him in a play. And his name is Liam (teeeechnically William, but having him for EVERY CLASS both days I know he goes by Liam). Liam is a pretty name.
His friend did the Friar's speech in the beginning of Act 2 Scene 3, and towards the end he starts talking about a flower that is poisonous and he was just as animated and he actually took up a paper flower to use as a prop. He pretended to smell it, he pretended to smoke it, and at "Full soon the canker death eats up that plant." he crushed it in his hands. I think I wasn't AS captivated by this one because Queen Mab was already my favorite, but these boys are awesome. If they aren't in drama than it's a waste of talent, and I'm tempted to join the technical staff of drama (whatever that means) just so I can watch people perform. Because this is what I learned in English today: that I really, really like watching people perform in front of me, whether it's of a musical nature or not.
Also I was placed in the Spanish class that's for people who actually SPEAK Spanish already. I only feel slight shame in being perfectly content with switching to the other class, where I'm not sitting there with no clue what's going on. Plus my friends are in that class. BUT BUT BUT. The teacher of the speaker's class was apparently the college roommate and friend of the history teacher I had last year. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AAAAAAFTER ALL~
Also, seriously, I love Shakespearean lines. "Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee thy swan a crow." "Don't mock my love. Who would not trade a raven for a dove."
How many people here have seen Bare? (Here is a pretty good version on youtube. It's the one I watched originally and I fell in love with it. It's about these two guys who are in LURVE~ but they're roommates in a Catholic boarding school, so obviously they have to hide it. Um, one of them is kinda iffy on the whole thing, he's afraid of what people[read: his father] would think, and the other I love to death because he just wants to be with Jason and not have to hide it. Peter <3) Well, it's a musical and it's got a play within a play thing going on. They're putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet. (And because a lot of the song lyrics are actual lines form the play it's close to impoosible for me to read those parts without imagining singing.) One of my favorite is Queen Mab. In Act 1 Scene 4 Mercutio talks about Queen Mab, a fairy that causes dreams, and that song is an abridged version of his speech. This and Mercutio's final lines made him my favorite character, and that speech is my favorite part of the book.
Anyways, most of the people were not very good. I mean, I guess they did pretty good, but most of them didn't REALLY have it ALL memorized. But there are these two guys and I'm guessing that they're drama buddies. OH MY GOD, THEY DID AMAZING. The first guy did Queen Mab, and it was amazing and he was so energetic and he is a total performer, and even though he had to kinda pause to remember a couple of times instead of just staying quiet he was all "hold on, I got it" and then continued, and he did it so well, and he was so animated. He acted out what he was saying, like on "pricked from the lazy finger of a maid" he actually mimed plucking something from his fingers, and "long spinner's legs" he stretched his fingers out, and for 'galloped' he ACTUALLY GALLOPED. I don't know why I found this as a good quality, but OH MY GOD. He was just amazing and I would totally go watch him in a play. And his name is Liam (teeeechnically William, but having him for EVERY CLASS both days I know he goes by Liam). Liam is a pretty name.
His friend did the Friar's speech in the beginning of Act 2 Scene 3, and towards the end he starts talking about a flower that is poisonous and he was just as animated and he actually took up a paper flower to use as a prop. He pretended to smell it, he pretended to smoke it, and at "Full soon the canker death eats up that plant." he crushed it in his hands. I think I wasn't AS captivated by this one because Queen Mab was already my favorite, but these boys are awesome. If they aren't in drama than it's a waste of talent, and I'm tempted to join the technical staff of drama (whatever that means) just so I can watch people perform. Because this is what I learned in English today: that I really, really like watching people perform in front of me, whether it's of a musical nature or not.
Also I was placed in the Spanish class that's for people who actually SPEAK Spanish already. I only feel slight shame in being perfectly content with switching to the other class, where I'm not sitting there with no clue what's going on. Plus my friends are in that class. BUT BUT BUT. The teacher of the speaker's class was apparently the college roommate and friend of the history teacher I had last year. IT'S A SMALL WORLD AAAAAAFTER ALL~
Also, seriously, I love Shakespearean lines. "Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee thy swan a crow." "Don't mock my love. Who would not trade a raven for a dove."