Thoughts from a Theater Nerd

A look at the inner workings of a theater and music nerd's head.

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I'm 24 and married to my best friend. I live with him and, my two stepsons, our adorable puppies, Buster and Lucy and cat Mr. Miao. I act, I sing, I'm addicted to coffee. I love video games and playing them with husband.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Life Lesson for the Semester

I have discovered as of late that being in a show at the same time as having my sophomore review = a bad thing. This causes me to want to rethink my majors. I don't know if I actually can at this point, but I've decided that should I not get into the B.F.A. program then I don't want to be a Theater Major because I really don't have the time to complete just a B.A.. That would be exceedingly lame. If I were to NOT be a theater major, I would certainly be able to complete my schooling in four years. A nice thing to think about. I have a feeling that my entire fifth year will be me taking all the classes I missed my freshman year. How cool am I? Pretty awesome I would say. But I wouldn't get the acting experience anymore.

FUCK.

Yes, I'm allowed to say that. School is complicated and dumb. My advisors are trying, but they both get to a certain point and can't budge anymore, and the theater department is getting tired of making accomodations for me...which I don't really get because there are fewer people in my crucial theater classes than in my required music ones. Why do people insist on being unaccomodating.

I gotta go. Practicing is basically taking over my life.

Emily Elisabeth

Monday, April 20, 2009

French Comedies

I'm basically fed up with the show I'm doing right now. It's gotten to the point of redundancy, kind of like what happened in my acting class (which is much better, by the way).

Tartuffe
can only get you so far before nothing else happens...besides which, my character went from me playing it with an inner motive, to my director wanting me to play it more like a confused 6 year old. That's cool, but I don't want to play characters like that anymore...

I'm bored with my theater life, and want some new stuff to play with. Oh well, off to acting class I guess *sigh*

Emily Elisabeth