1 August 2013:
It’s been nearly two weeks since I last blogged.
And since then, many things have happened. Today is the 1st of August, which means it’s 62 days to the Promotional Exams and 4 days to show time.Show time, what show time? On 7 August my school will be celebrating National Day. As with other years, TjDrama would be putting up a skit as a performance. This year I am directing this skit, and I’m really excited for it.
From the start, the club has been rather lucky. Our senior
TH came up with a fantastic script, so we didn’t have to brainstorm for new
ideas. All that had to be done was to change the script here and there and we
were good to go.
Currently the only problem we face is the pacing of the
skit, which technically isn’t a new problem. During Twelfth Night pacing issues
plagued us nearing show time as well. We did resolve it (mostly) for Twelfth
Night, so I’m confident that this one would go fine too.
We shall see how it goes 4 days from now. Break a leg.
~
In some ways I guess I’m rather blessed. I’m able to be
doing what I like most of the time. Although occasionally things can get tiring
and all, but I’m still glad I’m in TjDrama. The club is definitely not bonded,
but at least we get along fine with each other.
And ever since this year I’ve been meddling a lot with
theatre, and that makes me really happy. Sometimes I do wonder if it was nature
or nurture: do I love theatre so because it’s in my genes or was it because I
attended Speech & Drama classes when young?
Maybe it’s a mix of both. Whatever it is, I’m just glad that
I’m finally doing drama. I can’t claim to be the most experienced (since others
have done it since primary school till now) but at least I do bother to try
things out and hone my craft.
And yes, I do think that acting is a craft. Sense 1 of the
Oxford Dictionary defines it as ‘the skills in carrying out one’s work’. In the
same way, acting has to be perfected. There is no such thing as someone who is
naturally best at acting.
There may be some who are born to be more able to mimic
others, in a way, which makes the person act better. But without practice even
talented people cannot improve. So yes, I’ll try to improve with whatever
opportunity I have.
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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but actually I
find crew work rather interesting. And I guess almost every theatre person
should understand the importance of crew. Even if you have an A team cast, they
are nothing without crew.
Yet it’s real sad that crew normally don’t get much
recognition in terms of productions. Even so, I really don’t mind doing crew
work. Ultimately they still work hard and help out in the overall effort. To me
that’s what matters most.
There are some people with a strong sense of victim complex.
If you keep on thinking that people are out to get you, you will just wallow in
self-pity and never be able to improve. And sometimes the reasoning used just
gets more and more absurd. Incredulous.
TTFN.