Woo!
So, what's been happening in my life since last time?
1) "How to be Horrid" was a fair success. It took the audience a while to get into it but once they did they laughed at most of the jokes and performances. The tech was rubbish, with our tech manager screwing up most of the lights and sounds - necessitating a degree of improv which sometimes got extra laughs (like when I ended up splurting tea all over the star, who was sat directly in front of me and had to keep a straight face) - but overall things went quite well. I've learnt from some mistakes and I'm ready to attempt a better play next year.
2) As well as doing another of my sketch shows in Freshers' Week, I've been cast in a Fringe play for 2 weeks, which is nice. Have no idea whether many people will see it - it's a short dramatic biopic of Galois, a French mathematician - but it'll give me experience. The cast's decent too.
3) I have a flat sorted out from September onwards, and also have a summer flat for July and August so that I can be around for the Fringe.
4) Exams were... OK. Classics stuff was fine, it's still the Christian Theology and Ethics course that remains a thorn in my side. I know I have to retake Christian Ethics exam, so here's hoping I didn't bugger up the Theology one too. Next year I can drop it all and concentrate on Classics and lovely Roman history.
5) I've missed half of New Who series 3, partly because what I have seen hasn't made me want to watch much of it. Turns out I missed a cracker tonight when I was instead watching my DVD of "Licence to Kill", so I'll catch the repeat tomorrow. It's vaguely telling that I probably won't bother asking the mater for the series 3 set as a birthday present as I did with series 1 and 2; I'd rather get that fabbo Key to Time set instead. Pirate Planet! Androids of Tara! Wahhh!
6) I rather like the 80s work of A-Ha.
I think that's about it...
1) "How to be Horrid" was a fair success. It took the audience a while to get into it but once they did they laughed at most of the jokes and performances. The tech was rubbish, with our tech manager screwing up most of the lights and sounds - necessitating a degree of improv which sometimes got extra laughs (like when I ended up splurting tea all over the star, who was sat directly in front of me and had to keep a straight face) - but overall things went quite well. I've learnt from some mistakes and I'm ready to attempt a better play next year.
2) As well as doing another of my sketch shows in Freshers' Week, I've been cast in a Fringe play for 2 weeks, which is nice. Have no idea whether many people will see it - it's a short dramatic biopic of Galois, a French mathematician - but it'll give me experience. The cast's decent too.
3) I have a flat sorted out from September onwards, and also have a summer flat for July and August so that I can be around for the Fringe.
4) Exams were... OK. Classics stuff was fine, it's still the Christian Theology and Ethics course that remains a thorn in my side. I know I have to retake Christian Ethics exam, so here's hoping I didn't bugger up the Theology one too. Next year I can drop it all and concentrate on Classics and lovely Roman history.
5) I've missed half of New Who series 3, partly because what I have seen hasn't made me want to watch much of it. Turns out I missed a cracker tonight when I was instead watching my DVD of "Licence to Kill", so I'll catch the repeat tomorrow. It's vaguely telling that I probably won't bother asking the mater for the series 3 set as a birthday present as I did with series 1 and 2; I'd rather get that fabbo Key to Time set instead. Pirate Planet! Androids of Tara! Wahhh!
6) I rather like the 80s work of A-Ha.
I think that's about it...