The End is Near!

I can't believe that Twelfth Night will be over tomorrow.  It is a sad thing.  Everyone did such a great job and worked so hard!  I'm going to miss this show.  Doing props for Twelfth Night was a fun and new experience for me and I really loved every second of it.  I got to experience what it feels like to have actors, directors, set designers, and stage managers rely on me.  It was a humbling experience as well as a great view of how theatre is collaborative.  I enjoyed going out and finding props after researching the time period, going to the production meetings, and also making some of my own props.  Behind the scenes there are still some things that need to be made on the spot, like hotdogs, rootbeer floats, and letters.  Doing all of this makes it even more important for me to be at the actors' service.  I love it, love it, love it!  I would like to stage manage and do scenic art for a play as well, but props is most definitely something that I would do again!

Good Friday

On Good Friday, my best friend from high school and I are going to Charleston with a few friends.  I'm really excited!  I haven't seen Lauren in a while and I haven't been to Charleston in years, so it's about time that I do.  Lauren is coming up on Thursday and spending the night after she sees the play.  My other friends, Brittany, Tiffany, and Jessica are coming as well.  After Charleston we're all going home.  Jessica's parents are missionaries so she's going to my house to stay with me for Easter.  The whole weekend should be lots of fun.  I'm just worried about the fact that studying will be hard.  I can't believe that exams are next week!  I'm taking the time I have at home to get organized for the week ahead.  That is what I really need right now.  Wish me luck! :)

One Act

In two weeks I will be performing a one act called, The Chairs by Ionesco.  It is about an old couple in their 90's who have gone a little crazy.  The couple lives on an island completely surrounded by water and they are all alone.  To entertain themselves, they imagine guests coming to their house to hear a message.  The husband never reveals what his message is.  They hire an orator to explain the message to the guests but before the orator speaks, the couple throws themselves out of the window and commit suicide.  The twist is when you come to find out that the orator is actually deaf and mute.  And so it ends with a conveyed message consisting of odd combinations of consonants and vowels.  It is Theatre of the Absurd and is VERY funny!  Even though the lines are split between only me and the other actor, playing my husband, I can't wait to put it on!  I've never acted old before but it has proved itself to be very fun.  It should be a great adventure!

Castle

Castle is my favorite show right now.  I have to watch it on Hulu.com when I get the chance because I don't have a t.v, but I still count down every minute until I get to watch the next episode!  Castle is all about a writer who decides to shadow a police officer, Kate Beckett, for inspiration for his novels.  He writes murder mystery novels.  Richard Castle has a daughter who is beautiful and a washed up actress for a mother.  Castle always ends up helping Becket solve murder cases by thinking like a writer, and they develop a cute little relationship that never actually gets into a relationship.  The craziest thing about the show is how freakishly good-looking everyone is in the cast!  There is not ONE ugly actor in this show! The endings are always exciting and comedy is at every corner.  I think that everyone should watch Castle.  Everyone of my friends that I've said that to have gotten hooked on it like me. I can't wait to watch the next episode!! :)

Mr. and Mrs. Hanshaw

On Sunday, I went to a wedding for my mom's best friend.  It was interesting because Mrs. Sheryl, the bride, lost her husband about 5 years ago and it's going to be weird calling her Mrs. Hanshaw instead of Mrs. Wechlser.  My family has been friends with Mrs. Hanshaws family for about 10 years.  The wedding was quite beautiful despite the bad memories of losing Mr. Wechsler that were in my head.  The couple got married at Table Rock, here in Greenville, and it was the most beautiful day I'd seen in a long time!  The ceremony took place on a big, stone balcony looking over a lake with dogwood trees framing the picture.  It was a celtic wedding, so the groom wore a kilt and traditional scottish garb while the bride wore a celtic/ medieval gown that was green and lace-up in the back.  I got to help set up the room for the reception and, in doing that, it helped me think about what I want my reception to be like.  The entire wedding was personal, meaningful, and very homey.  The best part was that Mrs. Sheryl gave me her bouquet because, she said, she knew I'd be the next one to get married! :)

((Sigh...))

I can't wait until I'm done with school.   I know that it is bad for me to say that because I'm only a freshman, but I still feel like my life has yet to start.  I have established who I am, I have established what I love, and I have established who I love.  Now, it is time to apply it all.  When my school doesn't let me live on my own until I'm 21, I feel like a child.  The fact that I have to be in my room by 12 am on weeknights and 1 am on weekends makes me feel like i'm 16 again.  (I didn't have a curfew after I was 16 because I'm a responsible person.)  If I'm worrying about grades in classes that mean nothing to me, that's just adding on extra stress that I don't need.  The best thing I can do to prove to myself that I'm an adult right now is pay for my car.  Some of my teachers tell me that I should quit the job so I can spend more time worrying about homework and things like that.  Maybe if I can be curfew-less and live in my own apartment I'll look into cutting back some of my responsibilities.  I'm not saying that school isn't a responsibility.   I have so much more potential for great things in me than just... school.  I want to be who I am, who I'll become one day.  (But not right now because I'm in school...)