...but you can still call me that. She/her, they/them. Finnish, queer.
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New Stuff!
New stuff!
As I predicted I havent't actually written really anything here, but I might give this thing another chance. I've recently bought myself a new laptop (his name is Pavel and he's been pretty ok so far), and I got accepted into a one year theatre- school I applied to earlier this summer. I'm actually writing this from my new dormroom which I share with another girl from my class, and the other room in the apartment is shared by yet another theatre student, and some mysterious girl we haven't seen yet. Classes are going to start tomorrow, and it's going to be really interesting. The school is not big, and there's only 12 people in our group, but personnally I like it. It makes for a closer knit group, and you really are able to get to know evrybody, and not just the people you live with.
Whatevs, I'm off to hang out with people for a bit and then to bed.
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Progress!
So the whole "write on tumblr more often"- thing is not going too well, partly because of the added workload, and partly because I'm just lazy :P
Work with the play is getting along pretty well, seeing as we had our first complete runthrough last saturday, and our dance teacher (who is doing the coreography for Carmen & co. and is overall very much involved in the process) said it went better than imagined. Personally I had a hard time of remembering what scene came after the one currently going on on stage, and had to consult the script several times in order to remeber when I'd be up next, not to mention that none of us actually had our real costumes or props on hand, or that the scenography is going to be built during this week. I think it went well though, and all of us left the theatre for a well deserved four days off. When we get back on friday most of the scenography is supposed to be ready, and hopefully we'll get at least some of the costumes next tuesday. Even though we've got a whole month 'till the premiere I feel like there's a thousand things we still have to take into account, but on the other hand, those of the group that have been in theatre before this say we're on a pretty good schedule, and that progress is going well. Eh, I suppose I'll just have to trust them.
I'll try to post more often as thing progress, but I can't promise anything. Here's to continued success!
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Kicking into a higher gear
So, after that first complete I-don't-know-what-I'm-doing- runthrough we've been working really hard to get this thing going, with advertisement- meetings, a reporter for a local newspaper visiting us, and agreeing not to have any days off (except one!) before the premiere, and so far we've been doing OK. The group has been going through a rough patch, but being the sensible adults that we are (eh, not really), we have talked about it and everything's okay now.
Actually three of us left early today to get a flight to Sweden for entrance- exams, and one other guy is joining them tomorrow. They'll be back by saturday morning, however, and we can continue working with everyone present. The rest of us are of course going to keep going, and getting some more personal tips from our other teacher about our characters, and her vision for the play. Next week we're going to try working by the traditional "theatre hours" meaning we rehearse from about 10 am to 2 pm, have a long break, and continue from 6 to 9 pm. It will take some getting used to, but working this way will give us time to go through and fix technical issues, such as lights and props in between rehearsals, and hopefully allow us to also have a bit of a rest in the middle of the day.
So far the nervousness hasn't really made itself shown, but I'm sure that the stress will build up over the coming three weeks, and we will all be more or less nervous wrecks by the first dress rehearsal on the 17th of march, two days before the premiere.
(Pssst! Here's the official instagram for our production! http://statigr.am/woyzeck2014vnf )
Working!
Re-writes of the script have begun! We've been reading through the scripts these last couple of days, and started re-organising some of the scenes in Woyzeck today. It'sreally fun, if somewhat difficult, with people throwing ideas back and forth like mad, but we have made some progress. I think the final script will be awesome, even more so thanks to us, the actors ourselves, having a big part in how exactly it turns out. And tomorrow we are going to Vasa for a festival/meet/thing with the scenography tudents there, and will stay there until Sunday afternoon. It's quite a long way, but we'll find some way of amusing ourselves during the car ride.