The final and last entry —for now. If I ever act again, I’ll continue to document my experiences. But now that The Virgin and the Unicorn has ended its fabulous sold-out 2 nights run, my first acting journey has also come to a close. I feel reluctant to write about it, because that’ll just mean IT REALLY [...]
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Acting Journal Entry #8
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, SFU Contemporary Arts, theatre, theatre production on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Acting Journal Entry #7
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, SFU Contemporary Arts, theatre, theatre production on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) Our lighting designer is really sick. She didn’t show up for cue-to-cue on Monday because she was in the hospital. Barry helped a little, but it wasn’t satisfactory. Good thing we had others’ help. Hope you get better soon, Celina!
2) I got soooooooo distracted during Tech Dress because the stage management crew wasn’t doing [...]
Acting Journal Entry #6
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, SFU Contemporary Arts, theatre, theatre production on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re opening in TWO DAYS!!!
I am not nervous yet. I got nervous sitting in the audience at week one’s performances on Friday. I knew that in a week’s time, me and the people on stage will have switched places… Actually, thinking about it just now makes me a little jittery. Friends are coming to see [...]
Acting Journal Entry #5
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, SFU Contemporary Arts, theatre, theatre production on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, for the past couple of rehearsals, we’ve been working mostly on scene two. And I’m not in scene two at all. So that means I get to take it easy, rest well, get more sleep, and prepare myself for the next rehearsal.
Honestly, I don’t miss acting that much. But I do miss the rehearsals, [...]
Acting Journal Entry #4
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, SFU Contemporary Arts, theatre, theatre production on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned why I am so excited to be part of the Directing Projects this semester even though I’m taking 5 classes —2 of them theory / reading & writing-intensive, which is part of the reason this past week has been really rough. First, I am having a hard time finishing [...]
Acting Journal Entry #3
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, Directing Projects week 2, performing arts, SFU, theatre, theatre production on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So tomorrow (Saturday, Oct.24th) we will hit the 1 full week of rehearsal mark. Time sure flies. 6 days into rehearsal, I am still discovering things as Petra the servant.
Every time I go on stage I feel different. Every time I go on stage I try to remember all that I have to think about [...]
Acting Journal Entry #2
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, actor, Directing Projects week 2, SFU, theatre, theatre production on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So this weekend marks my first ever rehearsals as an actor (as opposed to being a stage manager or some production thing). What is it like / how do I feel, you ask?
Well, first and foremost… exciting and scary at the same time. Exciting because I finally get to see what it’s like on the [...]
Acting Journal Entry #1
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged acting, acting journal, actor, directing and acting, film class, FPA 339, improv, improvisation, Laban method on September 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The class I am enjoying the most this semester is FPA 339: Directing and Acting for Film. So every week I look forward to that 4 hour block on Tuesday evening.
But today was different. I had a really rough night the night before, and still haven’t quite recovered from that going into the class. I [...]
A Quote
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged Berkoff, Claudius, father, Hamlet, I Am Hamlet, soliloquy, Steven Berkoff on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
from “I Am Hamlet” written by Steven Berkoff (one of the books that I have to read for context of theatre class)
“…a father should be the perfection of malehood. Fathers are gods, immortal and flawless. Since they were there when we first opened our eyes on the world, they and our mothers are the first [...]
Black Box IV: An Untenable Situation — the production that got me hooked on theatre
Posted in All Things Theatre, tagged black box, fine and performing arts, SFU, simon fraser university, theatre, theatre production, university on July 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are times when you can’t find a reason to explain why you love something so much. But if you think very carefully, you may be able to trace it back to the first event , or the ‘inciting incident’ as the English teachers would say, that intrigued you. Such was the case for my love of [...]
