artistic design...

i'm not too sure what exactly to put, but our artistic design in the play was a simple gym setting...an awkward guy that is just simply trying to fit in with society. he feels as though he can never be taken in, which makes him so awkward in the first place. there is definitely a transition that you can see as the play goes on and he goes from girl to girl, trying to talk to them and then being bold enough to ask them out for a date....it's a play with humor and thought, good ingredients in a play worth doing and seeing!

the final....

my thoughts on the play i was in, is that i think we did such a wonderful job....we worked hard to learn our lines and to meet with one another. i think what i appreciated the most was the way we wanted to help each other out so much, because by making sure the other person had their stuff straight, it helped our self to be straight as well....for example, there was a certain someone in the group that we would get scared wouldn't know the lines, therefore, we all practiced over and over as much as we could...by performance night, we all knew our lines. our director and designing people did a great job as well. i remember when we were just beginning and thought it would be too much, and now its just ran past us....no matter if we were ready for it, we're at the finish line....

summary of labs...

it's funny how what seems like an extra time for more class turned out to be so much fun. 9:30 labs this semester taught us a lot and allowed us to have fun in opening up...if you allowed it to! i remember thinking to myself, wow this class is gonna be interesting because the prof. is really "out-there"....and ya know what, i was right...lol...i of course mean this in a good way, i'm not trying to suck up, because had the class and the prof. been a "hot mess" trust me, i have NO problem saying it. but seriously, i believe the "out-there" attitude mixed with the classes energy made things easier to do. the first day was too quit, because everyone was still trying to warm up to one another...as we got later into he semester, everyone was comfortable around one another. i was so nervous around mid-terms to do my performance piece, but my company i worked with helped me and we reminded ourselves of all we had been learning in labs; this made it sooo much easier when i had to perform for a grade. by me getting through this, when it got time to do my final with the play, i just kept thinking of our discussions in lab when we would ask how much of our self are we willing to give up...how much can i step outside the box...and i feel as though i did. i wasn't scared, i had fun, and got to do something i don't think i would have ever done had i not joined the class. to me this semester wasn't just a "GRE" i needed...it was a great experience that i truly enjoyed. i won't be taking part 2 for theater, however, i will be in the filmmaking class next semester, so all the techniques that i learned will still come into play...and as the assistant director there is a lot i will need to learn.....to all my class mates and prof. francis, thanks for being so great and i enjoyed myself with you all:)....

colored girls

i know its been awhile since i've seen the colored girls performance, but i can still remember it! at first, i admit i went to it so that i could get the extra credit i know i need for blogging...but as it begin i really started to enjoy it....the passion that each girl put into their own performance piece was amazing. i felt as though each girl was telling, well re-living a past moment in their life..i never once said to myself: "oh, she "acts" really good." the piece i enjoyed the most was when the girl in red was telling a story of an "abusive" man who just couldn't get right, yet he claimed to want to be with her and their two children...later into the performance we find out he is sooo crazy that he dropped the little boy out of the window. i remember the hurt i felt as i watched it. i'm a very emotional person anyway, so seeing that made me just want to give the girl in red a hug as she was telling the story. all in all, an great night of the arts!

Last Day of Design Lab....awwww:(

i don't know about anybody else, but i have really been enjoying the extra labs...and today for me, it was a nice bang to go out with....well, if you don't know by now(and my monodrama was no hint...lol...) i LOVE fashion....i love to shop....anyways, today we designed outfits for 2 different types of characters....i sooooo got right to it.....in the end i loved what i came up with and enjoyed my peers designs as well....i may not be the best actress in the world...but i could see a lil future in design for the theater:)

Playwright take 2

today's class we continued the discussion of playwrighting, and went over Monday's performances...i forgot to add to my other blog, that the other 2 groups that performed did a great job.....i admire the way they really became their characters.....now, back to the lecture of that day....to me it was a good review of what i had already read ahead of time in the text, and review of what i had learned from previous labs....and lectures....the main thing that sticks out to me is just to research and try to become that character as you are writing, so that a reader or viewer can understand fully what it is that character is about.....when we did the exercises...i was picturing Cinderella locked up in a cold,bare room....the stepmother comes up to tell her to clean....she says no, don't come in, i don't wanna clean....the stepmother has a key...opens it up....they argue....then the stepmother goes about it a sneaky way, she tells her she can go to a ball if she does the work....the arguing and struggle of what to do just kept continuing in my head...i'm not sure my self what will happen in the version of it in my head.....

Yet Another Performance!...OH NO....

so this past monday, we (meaning my company from lab) were to perform our "thought it was over and done wit, thank God we made it" monodramas....boy, were we ALL surprised that we had to do it again. we all joked about how we got nervous like it was the first time all over again, and i know i was...i soooo already question my piece i wrote that sounds different every time i do it....but at the same time i appreciate the push in doing it, even if that "push" is doing it on stage in front of my peers...i'm just happy i'm the type of person that just says hey, this is me, it is what it is, and you can take it or leave it......i'm proud of myself for attempting to do such a thing.....i've never done this kind of thing before, and everything is all new.....but that's why i'm taking the class to learn, and to be open to new things.....no matter how scary, rite?!