welcome to the life of your time!

Wow...I have so much to say. I haven't really been keeping on top of everything, so I'm gonna try and be serious here. Try being the operative word in that sentence.

I had a flick through Mirror Mirror at SSABSA (is that the right amount of 'S's?) Drama Day, and I got a bit more of a picture of what it's about. I mean, at first I thought it was like a character who worked in a circus had an eating disorder, but that's not what it appears to be about. Keeping in mind that I only **flicked through** the script, it looks to me more like the circus is a metaphor, as in the girl's life is a circus. The Ringmaster looks like an amazing role, fun to play but also open to quite a bit of interpretation. And it's a character who could be over the top, but still be serious in context. I can't wait til we find out what the casting is, although I may not be thinking that if I get a role I think will be especially difficult. It's hard to remember that we're not 'competing' for the lead roles, but that we will receive roles that will (hopefully) showcase our talents the best.

Yesterday was SSABSA Drama Day. I held off writing about it last night, in case anything amazing came up in Drama today that related to it. And I was right! It seems that Luke was inspired to do an ISP, instead of being a part of the Group Production. I have to say, quite a few of us never saw that coming. I was hoping to maybe be inspired to a different path as well, but nothing really struck me. It made the ISPs look hard, and an offstage role to look just plain boring. However, there were some very interesting parts to the day. The scenes performed by Tyndale were very skilled, in that the girl playing Helen Keller didn't speak the whole time, but managed to convey so much. She even pulled off blind well, as she just stared blankly into space instead of looking at what she was doing. I also enjoyed Kane's ISP presentation, as I didn't see it last year and it introduced me for the first time to the idea of Forum Theatre. The 'workshop' with the two actors and director (unfortunately, names escape me) was very interesting, especially the subtext exercise using the beanbag. A useful part of the day was the information on reviews, as I really had no idea how to go about them, and I kinda assumed Ms Mace would explain when we got to that. All in all, although the 'being lectured at' part was really boring, SSABSA Drama Day proved well worth it.

And onto today's lesson. It was amazing. We were looking at our physicality, as a casting tool for Ms Mace, and I guess there was also benefit in it for us (even thought none immediately comes to mind, except for 'fun'). We started off doing mirrors, and my partner was Maddy. I think we worked really well together, as our movements were almost in perfect unison. Ms Mace even called on us to demonstrate in front of the class, which made me feel a little stupid but it was a great acknowledgement to know we were doing well. Then we tried moving our whole bodies and walking, mimicking each other's movements. This was a LOT harder as we had more to keep track of, and we weren't necessarily looking at each other directly. After lunch we came back with different partners, preferably of different genders, and Josh and I were together this time. We tried the walking-mimic thing again, but this time we were supposed to follow each other, not one lead and the other follow. We did it with colours as our inspiration, and I have to say I found it so much harder to work with Josh than I did with Maddy, but I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe Maddy and I just 'click' together well. After that, we 'danced' in our unison thing to music, and then joined up groups to form a large group to 'dance' with. Which meant that now my group (lol 'my' group...makes it sound like i own it or something) consisted of Josh, Jenna, Kyle and me. This was much easier to do, and I felt a lot less stupid. The ideas for movement were either adopted immediately or just ignored by the other three, which meant there was less time wondering what was going to happen. I very much enjoyed Drama today, it was challenging but still fun.

**phew** That was a blog-entry-and-a-half. If you've managed to read this far, then well done. Gah. I keep writing for an audience even though this is mostly for my own reference. Must be all my previous blog-writing which DID actually have an audience. Well, a great big HI and a hug to everyone who visits me here.

I so can't wait til the Group Production gets underway. I love rehearsing for things. I love performing them even more. I'm just a teensy bit worried I won't be good enough.

BYEEEE!