The Promished Long Story...

(yes, last post was one big sentence and a little one... shoulda made it all one big one... ah well)

K, in drama class, we are currently doing a project in which I, along with a few other students, are directors, while all the other students are actors. The directors were given choices of short sections from longer plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Waiting for Godot, etc.) and had to cast their plays and direct and all that good stuff. It has been an absolute blast.

I have the smallest cast - only two - as I am doing a seven or so minute clip of 'Waiting for Godot'. My two people are the best cast you could ask to have. Line check (when all is needed is memorization - not even expression is requiered) was over three weeks ago and they had their blocking down by then. They were acting for line check! *huggles them*

So from then on, we have had pretty fun practices. With over an hour and a half per class and the play only being 7 minutes long, we have either enough time to do an enormous amount of acting or a little acting and a little fun. Usually it is the latter.

So last class, we did the play about 4 times and then were bored. So we began to take apart the room and put it back together. When we act, we take all of the tables (we have long tables rather than individual desks) from one side of the room, shove them among those on the other side and stack up all of the chairs so that we have an entire side wall of the classroom free to work against.

We did it again and again, doing it faster and faster. We had it down to a system. Then we found a stopwatch and began to time ourselves.

Practice was nearing its end and another group came in to see what we were doing. We handed them the stopwatch and told them to hit the stop/start button when we told them. Start . Scramble - thump - thump. Stop.

12.01 seconds to take the room apart. 12.01 seconds to move 3 tables across the room to park between the other tables and to take 12 chairs and stack them up to sit in a corner. 12.01 seconds for three people to accomplish this.

Then we had them time us putting it back together. Start. Scramble - thump - thump. Stop.

14.26 seconds to put the room back together. 14.26 seconds to move everything back to its alloted place, pressed against the wall and chairs tucked in.

We went crazy. We were high-fiving and hugging and screaming, all while the other group was standing there looking at us as if we were insane. We probably were. But let me tell you, doing that over and over again is good exercise. We were hot and sweaty and we felt good.

I highly recommend that for fun if your teachers don't mind you taking apart their classrooms. *shifty eyes*

Yes, yes, t'was fun. And now the final performance approaches and we prepare to blow away all competition. *limbers up* Seriously, I do think that we have the best cast, barring maybe one, and I am not just saying that because I am the director.

Yup, yup, yup. Wish us luck!