Wednesday: An Itchy Day

WOW. WHAT A DAY! If you want photos, there are a few below. Otherwise, enjoy the ride.

This day was full of fabulous discoveries and moments. I am trying to type quickly in my tired state because I feel it is important to have a record but I also want to sleep so badly.

1. I had a terrible, traumatizing night of not being able to sleep because of these mosquito bites. They are too horrendous to even think of posting on the blog. It's just a bad situation.
2. Laura and I were scheduled to do our scene in class today. We were playing Alice and Julie from The Pizzaman, a humorous play about these two dysfunctional, selfish roommates. Our rehearsal before class went well...
3. DOING THE SCENE was probably one of the most interesting experiences I have had here at Circle this summer. It went NOTHING like any of our rehearsals. We were off text, we were all over the place in the scene (in a good way) and it felt extremely realistic in some moments to the point that I wanted to stop the rehearsal and check in with reality. (Real reality...)
4. After class I had to kind of separate myself and think things over. There were several things that did not go as I had hoped in that scene. I was left a little disappointed, but had quite an epiphany in other ways.
5. Dance was good... we learned Thriller because it was our last day of class and it was fun and funny and things. Meh.
   
6. Voice class. Speech class. Derka der.
7. Grabbed a snack with Laura to discuss the scene. AAAAND got my Cabaret DVD! I am super disappointed to find that I don't think I have a way to upload it from the DVD... SOOOO I may have to FILM IT from my camera and then POST IT as a video. We'll see how THAT goes.
8. Andrew met me in Midtown and we came back to apartment, grabbed some dinner, and headed to Central Park to wait stand-by for ... THE BACCHAE! (The Bakkhai) It is being performed at The Public and tonight we were fortunate enough to see their second preview night. The production was actually really good - interestingly staged, the chorus was a significant part, Dionysus (Jonathon Groff) was fabulous. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous. Other characters... meh, I had mixed feelings. It's been interesting to take what Sybil talked about and to "see what satisfies me" and "pinch it" (steal it for my own use) and "see what doesn't satisfy me" and avoid it at all costs. Rather than "critiquing" or anything... very cool.

Enjoy some pictures. The city was LOVELY tonight. A little breeze, the theatre is outdoors and we were on the front row. The sky changed from blue to indigo to purple to navy to black in the time we were at that show. It was absolutely riveting in the way it added to the drama of the production. I was extremely happy to be experiencing The Bacchae in that way.

Love to all... I mean that. :)