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| DRAMA JOURNAL - FEB 20 2003 Click here to go home THESE ARE MY THOUGHTS ON THINGS... KEEP IN MIND I WRITE WHAT I FEEL AND THINK AND I WRITE IT LIKE A PRIVATE JOURNAL - NOTHING IS TONED DOWN EVEN THOUGH IT WILL BE VIEWED BY OTHER PEOPLE... I don't know why, but the last double period of Drama needed its own entry to describe the hellacious on-goings in our relatively insane class. Last lesson we started off with Nick's vacation. We had to act our freeze frames of everything that he did. Sounded simple but man, we were wrong (yet again). Twenty of us tried to "act" out what Nick did on his vacation, and in virtually every scene, we ended up with about six people doing something and the rest just standing there hoping Benney wouldn't realize. How would I know? I was one of them... Next up we continued our freeze frames (what is it with Benney and these damn freeze frames?) from last week. Sweet Jesus were we off the mark - especially our group, with each frame losing strands of the main theme, Immigration, as we progressed. Anyway, what could be worse? Acting it out. And that's exaclty what Benney wanted us to do. Well, adding dialogue and movement to these scences sounded somewhat simpler than the first task. Well that theory of mine, like all the others so far turned out to be a crock of hippopotamus shit. We (my group of James, Kylie, Rachel and myself) did quite well, in my opion - it was funny and packed to the ceiling with sterotypes, but it didn't meet the criteria. (Where have I heard that before...?) Anyway we had to improvise some of the lines and I ended up having a wife, Mandula, in the end. It wasn't scripted, it wasn't thought of but Benney yelling "Rachel, what the hell are you doing?" prompted Kylie (the car dealer in this scene) to ask me if she (Rachel) was my wife. And idiot me had to say yes and we had to run with something completely different. Even though we didn't fulfil the criteria (it seems like we never do with this horses ass of a topic) I think I got something out of it anyway. Now Benney, who saw all of the disasters (in terms of meeting the requirements) still wanted more. Why not? We know what we have to do now - we've worked it out by process of elimination - we've done everything but that. Now, we have a chance that I think we may take to make it all better. To perform a piece of theatre (as opposed to a piece of crap) that will prove we've actually learned something. Serious Drama isn't exactly my strongest suit - humor is and I'm sure a lot of people have picked that up in most of my work, but lets hope, for my sake and Benney's sanity that we can pull this off. I think we can, I mean most of us did Monash (what this site is all about) which didn't even have the slightest indication of humor in it. All I've got to do is stay focused, but that's getting harder too, as we all go more and more mental, and I think we've sent Benney around the bend too, as she replied "Too much information" to Nick's statement: "I need a sheet." So, with the swimming sports tomorrow (Friday) we have more time to come up with an idea - we've got James, how hard can it be? -Bob [END OF PAGE] All material on this website is (c) 2003 Bob Productions Inc., on behalf of the Curiosity Killed The Cat Team and Maroondah Secondary College. Don't copy anything without permission or a lawsuit will be coming your way. |
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