In other parts of the world...
First things first...
50 Plays and Books for 2009:
1. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
3. The Cider House Rules Part One: Here in St. Clouds by Peter Parnell
4. The Cider House Rules Part Two: In Other Parts of the World by Peter Parnell
5. Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
6. Equus by Peter by Peter Shaffer
7. Bash Latter Day Plays by Neil Labute
8. Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
Anyways, life has been so good lately and I'm not even entirely sure why. Cider house is going really well. We finally finished all of the blocking last night and now we are just going to do scene work and run the show. It has been one crazy long process and it is only going to grow from here. The show is just so damn tragically beautiful for the last like 15 minutes and I lover it...I didn't really think I would, but I do.
Caroline and I went Monday in studio. Now I was in this weird point in my work where I was ready to be naked in the space. Everyone goes through it and some handle it better than others. A few try to hide it and a few present it to the world. Whatever. I decided I was going to be one of the latter and I was going to get naked and do some craziness.
well...my partner ruined all that and instead I had one of the most brutal, knock down, dragged out, battles with Caroline. I mean it was vicious. We attacked each in other in this way that neither of us ever had. She started out by being upset because I didn't want to be happy with her. I was really on my way to a dark place and she just wanted to juggle fruit. Well it pissed her off and she started throwing fruit at me...and then all hell broke loose. This wasn't even like the table incident (where I sort of threw a table...kind of...at my partner) First of all, I was only in these like skimpy tighty whities (they were gray actually lol) and I just went off, but she like really commits to something and never backs down. So we just fought. There was one part where I was hurt so much by what she said that I just backed her into this corner and I am just like screaming at her over and over again. I believe I called her something like a "heartless, cold, cruel, worthless bitch of a human being..."
You get the picture. It was the first time where we finished, but I couldn't just turn the emotion off. I was still incredibly upset. I couldn't even look at Caroline and I started crying before the critique...it was a hot mess. Ironically, it was probably my best work ever. I mean he didn't even care that I didn't even get to my activity. He loved how much we were so connected and working completely off each other. It was kind of amazing. I wa so exhausted by the end that I just went home and skipped the rest of my classes Monday and just relaxed. I really needed it and it made my Tuesday so much better.
I just love that everything seems to be falling into place when it comes to acting right now.
I've never had so much confidence in myself and it is a wonderful feeling.
There's more but I have my voice lesson in 15 minutes and 5% battery on my laptop so...
Later days!
50 Plays and Books for 2009:
1. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
3. The Cider House Rules Part One: Here in St. Clouds by Peter Parnell
4. The Cider House Rules Part Two: In Other Parts of the World by Peter Parnell
5. Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally
6. Equus by Peter by Peter Shaffer
7. Bash Latter Day Plays by Neil Labute
8. Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
Anyways, life has been so good lately and I'm not even entirely sure why. Cider house is going really well. We finally finished all of the blocking last night and now we are just going to do scene work and run the show. It has been one crazy long process and it is only going to grow from here. The show is just so damn tragically beautiful for the last like 15 minutes and I lover it...I didn't really think I would, but I do.
Caroline and I went Monday in studio. Now I was in this weird point in my work where I was ready to be naked in the space. Everyone goes through it and some handle it better than others. A few try to hide it and a few present it to the world. Whatever. I decided I was going to be one of the latter and I was going to get naked and do some craziness.
well...my partner ruined all that and instead I had one of the most brutal, knock down, dragged out, battles with Caroline. I mean it was vicious. We attacked each in other in this way that neither of us ever had. She started out by being upset because I didn't want to be happy with her. I was really on my way to a dark place and she just wanted to juggle fruit. Well it pissed her off and she started throwing fruit at me...and then all hell broke loose. This wasn't even like the table incident (where I sort of threw a table...kind of...at my partner) First of all, I was only in these like skimpy tighty whities (they were gray actually lol) and I just went off, but she like really commits to something and never backs down. So we just fought. There was one part where I was hurt so much by what she said that I just backed her into this corner and I am just like screaming at her over and over again. I believe I called her something like a "heartless, cold, cruel, worthless bitch of a human being..."
You get the picture. It was the first time where we finished, but I couldn't just turn the emotion off. I was still incredibly upset. I couldn't even look at Caroline and I started crying before the critique...it was a hot mess. Ironically, it was probably my best work ever. I mean he didn't even care that I didn't even get to my activity. He loved how much we were so connected and working completely off each other. It was kind of amazing. I wa so exhausted by the end that I just went home and skipped the rest of my classes Monday and just relaxed. I really needed it and it made my Tuesday so much better.
I just love that everything seems to be falling into place when it comes to acting right now.
I've never had so much confidence in myself and it is a wonderful feeling.
There's more but I have my voice lesson in 15 minutes and 5% battery on my laptop so...
Later days!