Bukuru

First lesson in, I was picking a chair out of a stack of a couple of chairs and I picked one up and the other came off the ground with it, then that chair falls onto my big toe on my right foot.
I was in agony but I held back from screaming for a few seconds until the pain went away…
The pain didn’t go away, for 4 days my toe was hurting like hell, it was blue because the blood had gashed beneath the nail.
My other foot wasn’t any better… I had scrapes on both feet from swimming and one of the scrapes cut deep and became infected and achey for a few days alongside the big toe thing.

First lesson is a blur to me, I can’t remember what happened after the toe thing, I recall us wanting to block out a scene but we never got around to it.
Then throughout the rest of the week we blocked scenes, we got as far as Sophie’s memory.
I was intrigued by some ideas but there are a few recommended ones that I just don’t think my character works well with, such as in the ‘God? Are you God?’ scene where Ketu questions the Guide, he’s meant to slowly rise and then drop when she yells back at him but instead of just dropping to my knees I think I’ll incorporate Ketu dropping onto the floor in a startled manner and then crawling away from the scene to rise again, to symbolise his great anxiety towards the Guide.

One thing about the week that annoyed me a bit was the unexpected lunchtime class, I had a media class to work on stuff for media, to shortly be sent down to the theatre rooms.
I mean I don’t really mind but a bit of warning would be nice ya know? Not too fussed about it though.

Acting is fun, except I feel like I’m expected to learn the lines at this point, I’m not, and I personally think it’s a dumb idea to start learning lines so easy on.
Once I would know them then I’d have to keep them in my head for what, 2 months? That’d bug the hell out of me.
I don’t want people looking at me funny for seeming out of place when I’m the only holding a script for the introduction, that’d make me feel pretty uncomfortable.
I’ve already got a plan to memorise my lines well, the same thing I’ve been doing for 2 years; at a certain calculated point, 3 lines per day for however long it takes until it’s all in my head, and I’ll have a couple of weeks before the performance nights to master it fluently, so I think I’ll be fine thanks.

As for publicity though, I think it might be a bitch. The summary and the ad are not much of a problem but contacting The Age and organising stuff makes me a little paranoid, there’s probably a small chance of failure but I still feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and am a bit confused by that. Ah well, things’ll work out.

Another week down…

Week 2 was very uneventful except towards the end of the week.
All I did for the first few days of the week is take notes or make reminders for myself about work in other classes.

I had no idea we were meant to bring blacks on the Thursday (Was it Thursday?…meh).
We started blocking scenes after many days of class discussions, this was enjoyable except I felt more awkward acting in front of the newcomers, well at first I did anyway.
The lesson we had on Friday was fun because I slightly overcame the thought of holding myself back from performing, and all of a sudden the class had improved. I’d almost forgotten my passion for acting.

I’m going to enjoy performing as Ketu…hehehehe… :p

The first lesson back bothered me; I wasn’t looking forward to the work ahead of me and felt like a bit of an outcast. I noticed that I was a lot less active than last year and although I’d been in the class for a year I didn’t feel like apart of the family thing that our class has going.

The next few lessons went by smoothly, I was happy that 100 was chosen for our senior performance as all of the other texts didn’t seem as interesting, I can easily bet that I was hoping to get 100 chosen the most out of the class.
The whole class read 100 together and that was rather enjoyable, I was chosen for the role of Ketu which I’m also content with, I reckon I can get used to the character and perform him well.
I’m not looking forward to Fame as my participation in that would most likely interfere with the rest of my studies, that and I’m not particularly fond of musicals.

Later on in the week we had a class in IT4 where we were educated in the art of the vineblogs. Not that it’s that hard to learn anyway but a little tutorial can still give you a shove in the right direction.

I feel as though theatre this year will take some getting used to, I would be much happier with the class if I had closer peers in the class but beggars can’t be choosers so what can ya do………1 WEEK DOWN!

- Bukuru.