dinnertime!

The count down has truly begun!
Promotions are going well, pat on the back to Kimmi for all that hard-work! After all, a good performance relies on having a decent audience present to view it! But we must make sure we don’t let Kimmi’s huge effort stray us from putting in our own hard-yards to promote this show 
Acting:
So, I started my process of learning lines like a week or two ago, and it was going along well and everything I have learnt, I feel fairly confident that I’ve learnt very well – I just need to work on recognizing my cues. However, I’ve started to find line-learning frustrating and feel like I’ve come to a bit of a stand-still in this process. I’m up to Monika’s drunk scene, in which she has quite a few large paragraphs and I’m finding it a bit hard to get my head around having all these paragraphs with not much brake between each – but I’m sure ill get there. I found that in rehearsal, while it is easier to act without a script in hand, we at times lose our characters very easily because a lot of focus is on remembering lines correctly, rather than on maintaining character. This has motivated me to put in more effort into perfecting my lines as soon as possible, so that by performance time it will no longer be a worry and I can put all my efforts toward being Monika on stage. I recommend this to all actors. I also found that I must remember that other actors depend on me knowing my lines and therefore it is also for them that I must perfect line-knowledge ASAP, so I started rehearsing in the shower :p. I’m still having trouble with my crying scene and making it believable, and feel I need some work and stricter direction in this scene…HELP! While I love acting drunk, it is demanding to maintain the seriousness of Monika’s words and realizations in her confrontation with Dympie, at the same time not losing too much of her intoxication and maintaining her original level of drunkenness. I hope the seriousness and depth of this scene is not lost in the comical aspect and vise versa. It has come to the crux of development process and I have now begun dreaming about theatre! READY STEADY ACT has consumed me! Hehe (o.k – I exaggerated a little at the end there)
Costumes:
I’m thrilled to hear (from Elise) that the costumes have helped people get into character. I find this to be true for myself and I hope everyone else too. It was really good to see all costumes on the actors and on stage. It really does help bring the characters to life and I’m so relieved and glad that I finally finalized the costumes and got it right! There are a few finishing touches, mainly from you guys – like yanivs pants, elise’s shoes, waiter outfits and I need to attach Paula’s hood. Also, I understand that some of the costumes aren’t in the cleanest condition as I purchased from oppe shops, but it is too difficult for me to wash everything – id prefer to go dirty, hehe, so if this is bothering anyone, or if after rehearsing in them (and maybe making them smelly yourselves) you’d like them washed, I am leaving that as your responsibility. Each person can wash their own costumes…just let me know if you are taking stuff so I don’t panic that things are missing. And, I know there are some “spilling” scenes in the play, in these scenes we are going to make the drinks water – Mel is going to try to get non-clear glasses – this will just make things easier as all we’ll need to do is dry the costumes, no need to wash them every night! Hope everyone is happy with their outfits and if anything needs to be added, let me know! Thanks dudes….
Pretty soon we will be backstage, truly able to say “READY…STEADY…ACT!” and then the play will take off with Gordon’s climactic line “waiter”! can’t wait!