August 2010
2 posts
Quick, sporadic update
Had my final day of classes today……No more Shakespeare with Lynn or Modern with John or Movement with Jackie….incredibly sad. But tomorrow is Open Day when all of the groups present their pieces….So I’m ready to perform Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters….I think I really had a break through for both pieces today in our final rehearsal…I finally felt...
Sitting in Starbucks
Currently sitting in Starbucks with Meg and Hannah at the start of the final week of BADA…..It’s so hard to not feel like its over, even though we still have 1/4th of the program to go….it felt over last week when we were only halfway through it.
We’re people watching from the second floor of Starbucks checking out the European flare passing up and down Cornmarket St...
July 2010
7 posts
Week 3...ahhh!!!
So the money crisis has temporarily been averted…..I went to Barclays yesterday afternoon to get a temporary card, and they looked at me like I had 3 heads…..They said they couldn’t help me and they couldn’t even give me any cash out of my account…..I was kinda horrified at this point….So I headed to Movement in the Aldates building, but my class wasn’t...
Londontown/Londonfrown
This Friday was the annual BADA River Party. Everyone took the 20 minute walk from Balliol to the Oxford Boat House just north of campus. It was a very lovely evening. We were allowed to rent out punts (kinda the combination of a canoe and gondola) and cruise along the river. Then they provided dinner and drinks for us all and the evening culminated in a big dance party by the river. Everyone...
Week 2
This week was much more tiring than Week 1 and flew by. First of all, the Q&A with Gregory Hicks & Kelly Hunter (the 2 lead actors from The Winter’s Tale which we all saw in Stratford on Saturday - which you can see pictures of here (https://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/winters-tale/production-photos.aspx) or on my Facebook to better understand my description of the set) was awesome....
Stratford-upon-Avon
Yesterday we went to Stratford-upon-Avon for the day to experience the life and times of William Shakespeare. Had a traditional English meal at the “The Rose & Crown” pub and took the tour of Shakespeare’s birthplace and home. I may have accidentally let some gas slip in Shakespeare’s bedroom >.< After the tour we watched a 4 person troupe do a ton of scenes....
Week One Done
Finished with week 1. It encompassed an incredible Masterclass from Julian Glover on Julius Caesar on the Quad. It was about mob mentality as Brutus and Antony sway the crowd in different directions after Caesar’s death, and it ended up with 106 people running/screaming across the quad and beating the shit out of the smallest girl at BADA playing Cinna the Poet. It was awesome.
I had the...
Classes have begun
BADA updates…….
We were all placed into one of 7 groups for classes. Each group has about 14 or 15 people in it and is named after a playwright (Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinter, Wilde, etc)….I am in the Kane group (i.e. Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis, Skin, Crave, etc) Oddly, the name of our group does not reflect the type of work we will be doing. I am in Kane and we are doing Cherry...
I am never coming home
I eat dinner in THE Great Hall……Oxford is like Harvard Square with the business of NYC….its incredible and sooooooo beautiful…..so many pubs and so many great restaurants. I’m in love with cider…..Also, my bedroom is HUGE (although I think I am one of very few with this luxury)..I’m supposedly in a “third year” room” with my own couch,...