The days where I could trick myself into believing I could blog every Sunday are LONG dead. The IB killed them...violently...with a machete gun...seriously, there's blood everywhere.
No matter, as I am banking on the fact that everyone is feeling that Christmas spirit and will not be disappointed in me (or just kind of tipsy from the egg-nog, you pick.)
Anyway, I have compiled a list of things I want to tell you about. The last time I wrote anything was in November, right before we ended the "A Thurber Carnival" rehearsals, so first up is the play.
- THE PLAY...
...was the awesomest thing in Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha ("Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy", anyone? :). Aside from the fact that I am a colossal theatre nerd and would be happy doing a play about a couple of bugs staring at stale cheese for two hours, I was really happy with how the play turned out.
Here's some photographical evidence:
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| "Happy" husband and wife (Yes, that is me.) - Aa, marriage! |
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| Hey, Mrs. Daley, keep your hands off my husband! |
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| "The machine is CREVULATING!" |
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| Yeah, seriously, we just butcher marriage left to right. |
"A Thurber Carnival" is a play written by James Thurber, a writer, about the 1960s. It is a collection of short stories touching on many subjects such as marriage, gender differences etc. The most famous sketch from that play is "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", which was recently adapted to a full-length film.
I played the characters:
- Miss Whittaker - A TV show assistant, who is past her prime and thinks she is too good for the show, anyway. The TV show itself is basically people sending in sketches and letters of their odd pets and The Doctor and The Assistant commenting on them. Think about a Dr. Oz kind of thing, but for animals. It was great fun playing her. I said things like: "We have a fish with ears and wonder if it's valuable" and "Oh, Doctor!". I also got to put on a southern/60s accent and be REALLY fake. Shout out to Sebastian, The Doctor to my Whittaker, it was awesome to work with you :)
- Mrs. Preble - A housewife, whose husband is trying to kill her. But as we see by the end of the sketch, the power does not lie where the audience would believe in the beginning. (I almost kill him with a monkey wrench.) My darling husband, Andrew, was also fabulous to work with! It's going to be genuinely weird not calling you "Preble" anymore.
- Berg - A soldier in one of Walter Mitty's fantasies. It was different playing a male character opposed to a female one. (Of-course it was, you idiot.) And different in a good way. I learnt about female vs, male body language and it was very useful.
But in retrospect I LOVED every moment of that production. Even the 10AM-5PM sessions in school on the weekends. And the cast were also some of the funniest people I've ever met. So Nana-Dawg, Lina, Lucie, Andrew, Seb, Nikola, Noa, Aditya and Francis - YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST. I hope to work with you a lot more. (Also, you make even dirtier jokes than I do and it's nice not to be judged.)
2. THE FILM FESTIVAL
...was equally as awesome as the play. UNIS holds an annual film festival, where all the students can submit. This year there were 10 submissions. I'm in Higher Level Film, so I was supposed to submit a film for the festival as a part of the course...But I probably would've liked to submit something anyway. Good thinking, because me and my friends Yifan and Andrei WON IN THE SOUND CATEGORY.
DiGregs - our film teacher - called the overall concept for the soundtrack very different and said the judges talked about the film a bunch and watched it over and over. So being the person who came up with the idea, wrote a good share of the script, directed and starred in it...It was good to hear. It was a HUGE learning experience and I am very happy we could pull even something like this off within a span of 4 days. (Seriously, the due date was right after the play came out and we all had tests, oh it was hectic.)
Our film is called "Mind Over Me" and it is available for viewing on this website:
http://unisfilmfestival.weebly.com/
The short is about a girl who can read minds. She finds it difficult and questions why she ever got them in the first place.
(Holy moly, I'm tired. Bedtime. Oh, wait it's 10:55PM. Anyway, lightning round!)
3. I'm coming back home to Estonia for Christmas.
4. I have scary exams coming up they call "mid-terms" and I'm so scared I could just eat my own hair. I won't though. That's gross, Vivian.
5. I went to Queens, specifically Nan-Dawg's, specifically a White Castle and the movies around Thanksgiving. Had thanksgiving dinner. Turkey and mashed potatoes and all. I love Nana so much, I could just marry her. I won't. But I could. She plays ukulele and has a British accent, come on, I'm only human.
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| WhiteCastle in style. |
6. I bought a guitar. And I'm trying to learn how to play it. And that may take a while. My fingers hurt. But I love it. My baby is a Fender Concert Series Acoustic-Electric. I don't have a name picked out yet.
That is all for this blog post. Thank you for reading. It is raining outside.
Photos of the play by Mr. Van Kirk - https://www.facebook.com/UNISNY/photos_stream. Thank you!
