Borat and Rapture

Yesterday was an interesting day. Due to my recent exaustion from so much work to do and a show in tech week, I decided to refrain from classes and stay in my apartment. I was actually much more productive in doing so; I got ahead in homework for the week and made a good start on a major paper that's due on Friday. So I made the right choice. Around 1:30 or so I decided that I needed to go downtown and do something, and that something ended up being Borat. I took the metro to Chinatown, on which there were two people having a rap battle (go figure), and went to the cinema there at the Verizon Center. Chinatown was oddly very active to be the middle of a business day, but that made it all the more interesting. The cinemas there are very nice, and the movie was not crowded at all. It made for a pleasant and enjoyable time. Borat itself was hilarious. The things Sacha Cohen did for that character are insane. Very daring. I read somewhere that the police were actually called on him 91 times during filming. But in the end it made for a very humorous movie - not for the squeemish though.

Later on yesterday afternoon I had rehearsal for Stonewater, which opens on Saturday!!! Lindsey Snyder, a doctoral candidate here at UMD worked with us on some tension moments and it really helped me. She's very talented and I'd like to work on a project with her sometime in teh future. I hear she AD's a lot of mainstage shows here....
But anyway, after our full run through, and finishing at 11:30, I left with a sense of accomplishment. Sure, the show still needs work - and we have three more days to cement things - but I haven't felt accomplishment with this show at all until this past Sunday afternoon. So that's a good sign for me that things are finally falling into place. Physicallity is a huge problem that I have and is something I'm trying so hard to overcome. I'm simply observing my actions as a person more closely and deciding why I do certain things. Is it tension? Usually. So to alieviate myself of these habits I simply need to convince myslef of their unneccessary tensions. AND IT WORKS, I think. Positive results thus far, but still so much further to go. Challenges to overcome and new ones to seek out. And that's what keeps theatre fresh for me. Claudia Kiss and Ryan Cury may be coming up to see it from JMU as well. I hope things do work out for them to get up here, it would be nice to see them both and show them around D.C. But we'll see how things arrange themselves with time.

Now I'm in Applause Cafe waiting pour ma classe de la fancaise. Mon Dieu! I really don't want to go, but I missed yesterday and can't afford missing another participation grade. I just wish I could have more interest in it. Although, it is hard to concentrate on anything when you have such a demanding show opening in only days and two major papers due! C'est la vie. Now to continue with my papers...