Cross-posted from a (friends-locked) discussion on how US accents sound to non-US people, because I'm interested in further input, especially from those whom I purport to represent herein (and apologies if I have misrepresented you in doing so).

I would guess that since most of the American we hear is from movies based in either New York, ( Read more... )

Some highlights:

• I wore my "Jedi Jesus" t-shirt. Any day I've worn that shirt so far has been distinctly better.
• I found Kuler, probably the single best colour-scheming application I've ever seen (needs Flash 9).
• Dawn of War: Dark Crusade rocks oh-so-hard. The Necrons are all slicy and cool. Manages to retain some of the immersiveness of the original ( Read more... )

Towser, Clevinger, 1st Doctor and 1st Investigator. I think. I was kind of heading back into a theatre after intermission at the time.

Four roles in the same play! This will be interesting...

( A compendium of boring, placed behind a cut to enhance intrigue because you know I'm that shallow )

Filming was less stressful than it ought to have been, which was a very pleasant surprise. In fact, we finished up about an hour early yesterday and a whopping five hours early today, which nearly drove me mental with excitement.

It has to be said, however, that improvising with people who are less used to improvisation brought its own challenges, ( Read more... )

This is not, of course, the sort of thing of which one can be concretely certain, but for want of contradictory evidence, I will posit that this evening's rehearsal of II.v of Courting Temptation may well have contained the best acting I have ever done. It felt really, really good.

I like acting.

I am the bitch of The Planemaker.

Today: nine-hour tech run. There was a lot of time backstage for sketchery.
( pick of the bunch )

It seems that people will go to great lengths to take me literally. It wasn't an actual dream, although perhaps the particular choice of title was less than appropriate for other reasons.

Anyway.

In other, less abstract news, I have been doing quite a bit of reading lately, in one of those bizarre 'you-never-find-the-time-until-you-have-no-time' ( Read more... )

So, my brown hi-tops have finally done what they have been threatening to do for a while now, and split right across the toe, on the day with the heaviest rain for weeks. Off to the Number One Shoe Warehouse in the weekend, I think. Not that I need more shoes necessarily, but this particular pair were good shoes to have.

Tomorrow night our flat ( Read more... )

So here we are in July, which, if Nietzsche knew anything at all, should make me pretty damn strong. I'll be rehearsing at least five nights a week for Planemaker, and on top of that I need to learn an entire script for the new play so that I can jump straight into blocking come August. It wouldn't be a problem, in that I'm only in six scenes in ( Read more... )