How is it October already?
Anyways, had my second day of classes (er, lectures) here today. I only have class 3 days of the week and two of those days I can literally roll out of bed and stroll a couple of yards to class because you see that big tall building in the picture that I showed you of where I live?....
That tall building is where 3 of my 5 classes this term are. And I'm in the building hidden behind the trees on the left.
I'm still gonna have a lot of walking to do though. Like today, one of the classes that will be close by to me had its first day on the campus of Selly Oak miles away. Dunno why.
For my Theatre Praxis course we're gonna be doing a lot of reading of plays and we'll be performing scenes at the end of the each term, the second one being the biggest. We'll have our own lighting plans for it and everything. I have to go in for a fitting for my black scene clothes! Oh my god!!! Why is this theatre department so awesome?
So yeah that's exciting, and in my Theatre Lab course we'll be practicing performance without text.
We started right away unlike most of the other courses where we just did an overview. It reminded me so much of the exercises we did in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Summer Seminar. It was just refreshing to get back on my feet again and doing practical theatre.
Later today I went to two auditions. One was for the "straight" theatre guild, Article 19, for the play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. The second was for Little Shop of Horrors. Originally I wasn't planning to audition for Little Shop but one of the other CalEx drama students talked me into it.
I chose my usual audition song (I Dreamed A Dream) from a pile of sheet music they had.
I hadn't warmed up or anything. I stumbled a bit in the beginning cuz singing with a pianist with whom you haven't rehearsed is always weird. But then I got to singing and I'm not gonna lie, I surprised myself. I hadn't sung for an audience in so long, and with accompaniment for that matter.
All in all both went pretty well.
And there are even more auditions to come.
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