The monkeys' names are Swift, Milton and Kafka.
Okay, i get it. i don't want this to be a dead blog. i don't have anything earth-shattering to say, so maybe a little life update will work. the last couple weeks have been insane! i am working on a show at school, which means for three weeks i sort of go into hiding and you can only find me in the theater, dressed in black. turns out it's a pretty good show, so i am enjoying myself. but i haven't seen any friends in a while (haven't seen any paychecks or tips either, so that's a bust). one more week left!
my classes are getting a little harder. theory and criticism is kind of a joke. we've been talking about plato and aristotle for like three weeks now. i personally feel that a half hour of discussion on each one is more than enough, since neither one really has anything helpful to say about theater. but, whatever.
stage combat is one of the best classes i've ever taken! it's fun, it's useful, we actually learn tons of stuff each time (it's not one of those classes where you talk about it for half a semester before you actually get to do it). plus, i get kind of a workout practicing the combat techniques in class. we have to repeat our motions a lot to get timing right, and when we do punches, it's sort of like doing tai bo. except the instructor isn't billy blanks, it's christopher villa...a little, middle-aged, mexican dude. so that's cool.
i HATE improv! with all that i have in me, i hate it. it makes me nervous, and stressed, and tired just thinking about it. i don't know why i can't handle it. i'm not afraid to make a fool out of myself in real life. i like having an audience. so i don't know what the problem is. but when i'm on the spot in class, my mind goes blank. i can't think quickly, i don't react to anything...i just sort of stand there. haha. it's too bad, really. the good thing is that she doesn't grade on talent, she grades more on attendance and participation and things like that (or in my case, attendance and standing there). but the thing is, i don't really want to go to the class...so i guess we'll see how that turns out. i've only ditched once so far. hahahaha.
directing is tough too. not because i can't do it, but because it's a lot of work. we have a million things to read, and a million things due all the time. one of the projects (yes, one of the projects...there are many) is to direct a 10-15 minute scene or one-act play during showcase week in april. the requirements for this project are a cast of 3 or more actors, and 15 hours of rehearsal during a 4 week period. HA! how is this possible? you have to find three people who are willing to give you 15 hours over four weeks, memorize 10-15 minutes of lines, and perform one night in april. all for nothing. they don't get anything out of this. i guess it's not as hard for people who live on campus who find actors who live on campus as well. the theater here is full of people who jump at every opportunity to perform. but i'm not gonna spend 15 more hours in costa mesa than i have to. and i don't think any of them would be in my play anyway. so i've asked three of the high school kids at church to do it. haha. it's going to be awesome. Gudy, Jon Kertes, and Alaina Henderson. We're doing the play Words, Words, Words by David Ives. It's about three monkeys who are put in a room together with typewriters in order to test the theory that monkeys typing into eternity will eventually produce Hamlet. or something like that. anyway, they're gonna be monkeys, and that's all.
and finally, my last class is computer-aided design. holy poo. i missed one day in that class, and i don't think i'm ever going to catch up. it's nice though, there's no homework. (probably since they can't require us to buy the $2000 dollar program and install it on our own computers...imagine if they could!). so whatever i get done in class is all i have to worry about. improv and stage combat don't have any homework assignments either, so that's nice.
i think that this makes up for a couple weeks of hermiting in the theater and not updating my blog. has anybody seen curt?
Read Choke!
my classes are getting a little harder. theory and criticism is kind of a joke. we've been talking about plato and aristotle for like three weeks now. i personally feel that a half hour of discussion on each one is more than enough, since neither one really has anything helpful to say about theater. but, whatever.
stage combat is one of the best classes i've ever taken! it's fun, it's useful, we actually learn tons of stuff each time (it's not one of those classes where you talk about it for half a semester before you actually get to do it). plus, i get kind of a workout practicing the combat techniques in class. we have to repeat our motions a lot to get timing right, and when we do punches, it's sort of like doing tai bo. except the instructor isn't billy blanks, it's christopher villa...a little, middle-aged, mexican dude. so that's cool.
i HATE improv! with all that i have in me, i hate it. it makes me nervous, and stressed, and tired just thinking about it. i don't know why i can't handle it. i'm not afraid to make a fool out of myself in real life. i like having an audience. so i don't know what the problem is. but when i'm on the spot in class, my mind goes blank. i can't think quickly, i don't react to anything...i just sort of stand there. haha. it's too bad, really. the good thing is that she doesn't grade on talent, she grades more on attendance and participation and things like that (or in my case, attendance and standing there). but the thing is, i don't really want to go to the class...so i guess we'll see how that turns out. i've only ditched once so far. hahahaha.
directing is tough too. not because i can't do it, but because it's a lot of work. we have a million things to read, and a million things due all the time. one of the projects (yes, one of the projects...there are many) is to direct a 10-15 minute scene or one-act play during showcase week in april. the requirements for this project are a cast of 3 or more actors, and 15 hours of rehearsal during a 4 week period. HA! how is this possible? you have to find three people who are willing to give you 15 hours over four weeks, memorize 10-15 minutes of lines, and perform one night in april. all for nothing. they don't get anything out of this. i guess it's not as hard for people who live on campus who find actors who live on campus as well. the theater here is full of people who jump at every opportunity to perform. but i'm not gonna spend 15 more hours in costa mesa than i have to. and i don't think any of them would be in my play anyway. so i've asked three of the high school kids at church to do it. haha. it's going to be awesome. Gudy, Jon Kertes, and Alaina Henderson. We're doing the play Words, Words, Words by David Ives. It's about three monkeys who are put in a room together with typewriters in order to test the theory that monkeys typing into eternity will eventually produce Hamlet. or something like that. anyway, they're gonna be monkeys, and that's all.
and finally, my last class is computer-aided design. holy poo. i missed one day in that class, and i don't think i'm ever going to catch up. it's nice though, there's no homework. (probably since they can't require us to buy the $2000 dollar program and install it on our own computers...imagine if they could!). so whatever i get done in class is all i have to worry about. improv and stage combat don't have any homework assignments either, so that's nice.
i think that this makes up for a couple weeks of hermiting in the theater and not updating my blog. has anybody seen curt?
Read Choke!
posted by Amy at 11:04 AM
3 Comments:
See? That's all we wanted... to know that our little Amers is alive and well! I'm not familiar with the play. Did you make up those monkey names? Nice.
I think I saw Curt on American Idol. Either that or Family Guy. I can't remember.
I ordered Choke. Should be here this week.
I took Computer Aided Design (CAD). It was stupid.
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