12/13/06
So, my livejournal is becoming not only a way which I can tell you about things, but also a tool for myself to organize thoughts in a way which is not geared towards informing y'all about my life (I still intend on telling you guys things, although I haven't lately. You can probably garner stuff from what I write anyway) I think it'll help me...and if you guys want to read it, and maybe respond to things, go ahead. I don't know what you might respond to, but who knows. It's interesting to me.
On another note, I miss portland now. I miss all you people. I especially miss the two plays project, I especially enjoyed that. I'm coming home on the 19th! I'm excited, but a lot is happening between then and now. like this paper I'm gonna start writing.
Kate Mendeloff's House
Discussion with kate told me:
Some theater companies are more collaborative and organic in the process, where you get to help with the process from many sides, actor, director, writer...some you just go in and do your job as actor, exploring the part. It would be stupid to narrow myself to acting right now, at the tender age of eighteen. There is so much more in art to explore. I just need to do as much as I can to experience and learn from plays on all sides.
Kate told me that I have great (possibly embellished) impulses as an actor, that I always come in with ideas and am never empty. Great! Kate can be kind of coddling sometimes, but I don't believe she would outright lie, so this should improve my own vision of myself as an actor. I should watch the videos of huxley, chekhov, and singing. Remember, movement has to be informed by emotion, which is why sometimes it's easier to block the play based on the emotional desires of a scene.
I should start working on and performing monologues for people (one a month? one every two weeks? figure out how that will work with schedule), asking them to look for: When character is not as believable, when movement seems unconnected, what they found especially interesting, inconsistencies in character, what they would have liiked to see. I should write before the performance, about what I expect it to be, how I think people will react, and then afterward record people's reactions and criticism. (more comfortable with performance, and learning about audiences, maybe?)
I wish I could see life as more of a never-ending process than the journey towards a finished project. I think I'm heading that way.
Playwriting classes (Oyama)
Over break
Plays - Monologues
Curse of the Starving class (wesley), Oe Kenzaburo, Yasunari Kawabata.
The Lost Room, Six Feet Under
I don't think I'm done, but oh well.
On another note, I miss portland now. I miss all you people. I especially miss the two plays project, I especially enjoyed that. I'm coming home on the 19th! I'm excited, but a lot is happening between then and now. like this paper I'm gonna start writing.
Kate Mendeloff's House
Discussion with kate told me:
Some theater companies are more collaborative and organic in the process, where you get to help with the process from many sides, actor, director, writer...some you just go in and do your job as actor, exploring the part. It would be stupid to narrow myself to acting right now, at the tender age of eighteen. There is so much more in art to explore. I just need to do as much as I can to experience and learn from plays on all sides.
Kate told me that I have great (possibly embellished) impulses as an actor, that I always come in with ideas and am never empty. Great! Kate can be kind of coddling sometimes, but I don't believe she would outright lie, so this should improve my own vision of myself as an actor. I should watch the videos of huxley, chekhov, and singing. Remember, movement has to be informed by emotion, which is why sometimes it's easier to block the play based on the emotional desires of a scene.
I should start working on and performing monologues for people (one a month? one every two weeks? figure out how that will work with schedule), asking them to look for: When character is not as believable, when movement seems unconnected, what they found especially interesting, inconsistencies in character, what they would have liiked to see. I should write before the performance, about what I expect it to be, how I think people will react, and then afterward record people's reactions and criticism. (more comfortable with performance, and learning about audiences, maybe?)
I wish I could see life as more of a never-ending process than the journey towards a finished project. I think I'm heading that way.
Playwriting classes (Oyama)
Over break
Plays - Monologues
Curse of the Starving class (wesley), Oe Kenzaburo, Yasunari Kawabata.
The Lost Room, Six Feet Under
I don't think I'm done, but oh well.