Gregory’s Blog?

well, i decided that instead of posting the 2 blogs on two different days, i wrote down notes and blogged about the classes on the same day since i dont have time except for a couple of hours of the week.

One class i chose to so was DRAMA! It’s one of my favorite classes and you can NEVER learn EVERYTHING there is to theatre. We are working on a scene with one scene partner. My partner is Jon Chetta and our scene kicks some serious butt if i do say so myself. We are performing a short exerpt from “The Odd Couple: The Male Version” There are two editions to this play… The Male Version and the Female Version. Im not too keen on the female version, but the male version is awesome! In it there are two guys (Oscar and Felix) who live together. Oscar is divorced and Felix’s marriage is ending. Felix is kicked out of his house by his wife and Oscar gives him a place to stay. So in our scene, Felix has spent the whole day cleaning a cooking for a double date that they are to have. Oscar ends up coming home an hour late from work and they get into an argument. In our scene I am Oscar and Jon is Felix. Our scene is so much fun and it is really funny!

So on Friday we performed our scene in front of the class and we were critiqued by the other actors. We have learned a lot this year and we get to apply everything that we learn to our scene and to others. So after we performed our scenes we ran out of time and we talked about it on Tuesday.

At the beginning of my scene i walk into the room and i am floored because everything is clean and there is a strong arouma of London Broil. Well i think that they beginning of the scene is so stupid and its so hard to act natural. So i walk into the room and i am basically talking to myself. Just ask Jon, it’s stupid. So I walk into the room and i talk to myself for about 2 minutes straight. And i am supposed to interact with Jon, but his character is ignoring me since he is angry at me. But When Jon starts to say his lines and everything, we actually get into the scene. And we have fun and we can do the scene with no problem. So after when the class was talking about it they said that i “needed to be more natural” in the beginning. And i agree! I feel extremely awkward when we perform. Only because I dont know how to interact with someone who is not listening to me.

We wrote down notes and tomorrow we are supposed to work with Mr.Halliday on the scene. My goal for tomorrow is to be open to everyone’s ideas and try my hardest to act natural. But then again i am contradicting myself because you can not try to act natural. so i am just going to listen to Mr. Halliday and do what he says. Right now i am thinking bout it and i think i am going to think as if i am walking into my brother’s room ad see that everything is completely clean! hahaha! I dont know. Jon and I will figure something out.