Thanksgiving Break

November 24, 2006 by dennisbaker 

We have made it to Thanksgiving Break! We needed it!

Things are progressing along, once we get back there will be two weeks of class left followed by a week of finals. Most of our classes are saying that we will not have finals, but we will have evaluations where we sit in front of all our professors, oh that will be fun.

We got our first scenes in acting class. I did not get a chance to see to many people’s scenes, but I got one that was done by other students in my previous Meisner class. Remembering back to that class the scene was not one of my favorite’s, but I’m excited to work with my classmate and I am sure it will grow on me. We are suppose to begin to memorize by route so when we are in repetition we are not “acting out” how we think the scene should go.

Speech still continues to be the class where I am having the most difficult time. Especially the once a week class with the Skinner speech teacher. Since we only have the class once a week for an hour and half, most of the work is done outside of class, which is tough. Speech is hard to work on by yourself as you are never quite sure if you are saying the sounds properly. I am going to spend some quality time this weekend reviewing and trying to nail down some of the sounds I am having trouble with.

We had our general auditions last week. We are eligible to audition for shows for next semester. We auditioned for all the directors in the general audition, and then we are called back on a per show basis, depending if the director wants us to read for a certain role. Those directors who attended last Monday were the two MFA I directors as well as the MFA II and MFA III director. Also in attendance was Amy, the head of directing, and the guest director for the first main stage show next semester, “The Country Wife”.

We were originally told not to worry too much about being cast in “Country Wife” as it is a style piece and we don’t work with style until the second year. Well we heard the director does not want to work in style, but I am not expecting much as usually this is the last show the MFA III actors are in before they spend all their time focusing on their showcase.

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