dr. s had the two classes go up against each other and even though we hardly had practice time and we didn't have all our lines memorized (keep in mind that each person in my group had a pretty hefty number of lines to memorize while the other class, which gave pretty much everyone at least one line, only had a couple lines each to memorize on average) we still won. =O anyhow, i thought it was wrong to have us compete for a spot in the shakespeare festival anyway and also to have us compete a day before we expected to perform instead of after. but i hear she changed her mind and said both classes should go, and i wholeheartedly agree.
we ended up being the only school at the shakespeare scene festival at njcu and it was quite fun. we both performed and we had a few mess-ups, especially because of me =O i felt bad because i kept forgetting my own direction lol i don't remember if i wrote about this in my last entry, but i had to play the male lead in an emergency recasting. ahh! but it worked out well and hira and i were quite convincing. both classes also got to workshop a scene. Stratford High's scene was Richard III's wooing scene with Jose and Jillian which was so so excellent. R&G are Wed's scene was the wall scene with Karen cast last minute as the wall to take my place, Hira as Isabella wooing the man she thinks is her lover Ben, and Mingo who delivered an outstanding performance as Venti, Ben's grandfather who thinks he's collecting a debt.
i was most proud of the wall scene. when bessie told me my script was well-written, that was the scene i thoguht of first. =) i was quite inspired when i wrote it and it wasn't creepy at all, even though some of the class was worried that a young girl wooing her lover's grandfather by mistake would be too weird.
the judges then gave us silly awards. R&G are Wed won Oddest Matchmaking Scene (or Best, I don't remember) for the wall scene and our prize was a DVD of Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing. Stratford High won Shakespeare in Love for Best Party Animals. Ashlei and I won awards for acting and directing in our work--she got Hamlet and I got Pacino's Merchant of Venice and I was so angry. =( But Pacino's Merchant is actually good, but I wanted Hamlet. And then Mingo, whose character was fat and required creative use of a pillow, won Reduced Shakespeare's Complete Works of Shakespeare on DVD as a prize for Best Impression of a Mattress.
Everyone was so good! Some of my favorites from the whole day's trip--Abram (esp. for his work in the insults exercise and his promotion of David's Cookies), Nicholson, Alberto, David, Hira, Michelle, Mingo, pretty much my whole cast, Peter, Jose, and I guess Mark. (I admit, I'm biased).
I apologize for the inconsistency in capitalization, btw.
Also, thank you to Aaron for his breathtaking introduction of our play.
first dr. s, then mrs. gupta, and now señor oshaugh. i had to write a letter for him because he won teacher of the year and the admin said he should try for county teacher of the year. it wasn't as good as i wanted it to be and i started making things up at the end that sounded like they went there. (i don't mean completely fabricated, i just mean that i was tossing generic words and phrases at the screen.) but i do like a lot of it. i was horrified to find grammatical mistakes after i already handed it in. i'll just correct them and give him another copy. =)
and on friday we went to the Met! yay! that's always great. there was a Gustave Courbet exhibit and i love loved it. and of course, i found a bunch of other people i liked and discovered others. =)
i liked this week, even thursday when i had 9382749832 tests.
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