Tuesday, May 24, 2016

the Comedy of Errors: a summary

Just for fun! (it's 5:30 AM btw)



Comedy Of Errors: A summary


Duke: Sry dude but you have to die.

Aegeon: But my tragic backstory! Involving two sets of twins!

Duke: Oh the feels! I'll let you live one more day.

Adriana: You're my husband.

Antipholus of Syracuse: No I'm not.

Dromio of Syracuse: Since when do I have a wife? And she's like a globe!

Antipholus of Ephesus: Open the doors, I'm hungry.

Household: Hi hungry. We won't let you in.

Antipholus of Ephesus: Fine! I'll just go spend the day with a Courtezan.

Luciana: Help! My sister, Adriana's, husband is in love with me!

Antipholus of Syracuse: I'm not her husband!

Merchant and Goldsmith: Where's my money?

Everyone: What the heck is happening?!

Courtezan, Pinch, Officer and Servants: Hi there.

Everyone: What the heck is happening?!

Aemelia: Two sets of twins, remember? Also I'm Aegeon's wife, and the mother of the Antipholi.

Everyone: Oh yeah! Awesome.

Adriana: Which one of you is my husband?

Antipholus of Ephesus: Me!

Antipholus of Syracuse: Now can I marry Luciana?

Luciana: Okay.

the Dromios: Wow! We're identical!

*Bows*




Wednesday, May 18, 2016

"Why, how now, Dromio! Where runn'st thou so fast?"

Hey Everyone.

I really need to get better at regular posting...

SO! How have you been?

I have been very busy. Hence the silence on my blog. So what has been happening? I had finals - I got an A in both classes! And Sister Act opened - we have only four performances left! I've already started on another production - Comedy Of Errors - though this one is not with WCT.



And I had homeschool prom yesterday - which was delightful.



Oh, and I somehow my Sacroiliac joint out of whack - which was very painful.

For those of you who don't know - I didn't - it is a joint in the lowback/hip area. In the words of Wikipedia: one of the SI joints' function is shock absorption (depending on the amount of available motion at the sacroiliac joint) for the spine, along with the job of torque conversion allowing the transverse rotations that take place in the lower extremity to be transmitted up the spine.


And because of that injury I was forced to "take it easy" during last weekend's performances. Which, for me, is really hard. I don't like holding still, or not pulling my own weight, so having other people do what I was originally told to do was mentally painful for me. However my cast-mates were all being caring and lovely, and making me take care not to make my injury worse. And I'm really grateful for them doing so, but still, there were many moments that I wished that they cared less, because I was going crazy. So I wrote the following piece in response to the situation.

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A curse upon this injury!
I in future shall take better care of myself
If only to avoid this tender care from my companions
In truth, at the first, I basked in the affections that were shown me
And reveled in the laziness I was allowed
But as the days went on, the resting was no longer a joy
And indeed itself became like unto working.
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So yeah. That's what has been happening with me.



The title quote is a random line from Shakespeare's The Comedy Of Errors.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

"Can't you see me on the stage performin' Mozart?"

Hi everyone,
What have I been doing lately that would be keeping me so busy that I forget to write a post? Well, the answer is: I am in a show - Sister Act - and we open on the 6th, and I'm working on finals for my first semester of college. As well as trying to make sure I eat and sleep and keep my off-brand semi-sanity.

For school I have a dance final, where I have to choreograph a minute of a song then perform it, as well as learn, then put to music and perform, a piece that our professor choreographed.
I also have the Stagecraft final: where I'll have to name various tools, and lumber and such and prove that I know how to use them.

Then there is the musical. We have a lot of choreography, music, lines, and blocking to learn, and we had two weeks less than musicals usually have for rehearsals.

I'm trying not to complain - after all, it was my decision to do all of this - but sometimes I just really need to get things said, otherwise the pressure and stress will cause me to explode further down the road.

My social-anxiety came back from his short vacation a few days ago, and worry-for-the-future came with him, so that's another fun thing to deal with...

I am so worn out... I can barely keep my eyes open for most of the day. I can no longer pretend that I'm fine... I can't hide the weariness any more...




My birthday just passed and it was a very interesting day... not so much in what happened (it was mostly just like any other day), but what it did for me. I woke up, went to class - I had Stagecraft that day - I honestly didn't expect anyone to remember, but my classmates said happy birthday. Which lightened my spirits. Then I went home, rested, then got ready for rehearsal. When I got there, a few people were already there, they said happy birthday, but other than that everything was business as usual. Then more people got there, and they all said happy birthday, and gave me hugs. People brought cake and brownies. Then, when everyone was there, we started warm-ups, and they all sang happy birthday. So it was all very normal, and routine, but still... it made me so happy, to see everyone's smiles, to hear their cheers, and feel their hugs. I felt loved. And I was overwhelmed by that. I was genuinely happy, which actually doesn't happen all that much (especially not since I was taken by exhaustion). I was with people that I loved, and I could feel their love for me, and that was all that mattered.



And I'm going to leave you there, because I need to write a paper on the concept and design elements of my choreography for tomorrow...


I used a Tangled quote for the title, because, Tangled is awesome, and happy, and always a good choice!