Well Hello.
I haven't been posting on here first because I have been crazy busy and second because I have to do a little blog for my acting class already. It isn't nearly as helpful as this one but I get graded for that one and it is therefore more important I suppose.
So if anyone has any interest in my other blog here is the link:
http://maryannraemisch.tumblr.com/
It is pretty dull though, its more like I make stuff up.
Anyway.
Here I start again.
I have been working a lot and going to school.
I am in an intro to acting class. I have mixed feelings about it, at times it is interesting and at others it sucks.
The teacher is the sort of person who says "be creative make bold choices" but the second you do he tells you that you made the wrong choice. I haven't been on the receiving end of that but just listening to it all the time gets very annoying.
I am working on my Tomorrow's Wish monologue in the class and at first I was feeling very nervous and awkward with it because I just was scared of learning that I sucked. Fortunately, during my private coaching session the teacher said I was talented. He said my main problem was over-acting, which is crazy because in high school I always felt like I was too small with it in comparison to everyone else. Its nice to hear that while I went out of my natural shell and that is good, I can go back in a little and deliver lines the way I always wanted to.
I had talked myself out of feeling good about the section because a lot of kids in the class are amazing in my opinion but the people I have talked too seemed very upset with him after their private sessions.
So the final performance for my monologue is next week I believe and now we are working on scene study. I am doing a scene from Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women. I am play the role of Holly in a scene where she is talking to her friends about buying a diaphragm, an awkward subject, a lot of scenes seem to be awkward when I try to find them.
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I went to see two shows recently.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
and
Narukami
They are nothing alike and nothing like typical shows either.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an experience, I went to a midnight showing and everyone was dressed up and yelled things at the stage the whole time, it was fun because the things shouted were practically part of the script.
Narukami on the other hand was a Kabuki show, which is a Japanese form of theater. A lot of it has to do with the way the actors speak, they use a lot of their vocal range and movement is also very precise rather than necessarily natural.
Both were interesting and had good and bad moments, Narukami was a little slow and hard to follow while Rocky Horror was hard to hear over everyone else.
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So, I am hopefully going to be in contact with a women in California who used to work as Will Smith's assistant. Now, she happens to work on the Twilight films. Small world, huh? ;)
I don't know what will come of this contact but I know what my hopes are.
I would have gotten her information sooner but she was in between the two jobs for a while and she just needed time to settle in.
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So. yeah. I don't know.
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
