What Has Happened Thus Far....

So we got these scenes for theatre. They are really funny scenes. My scene is called "Whatever" and I play Jessica, this crazy women who thinks there is demonic pigeon in her apartment (see my last post for the details). So far in our rehersal, we have memorized our lines and blocked most of it. We don't have any of our props and costumes though. I can not wait for those. I think the blocking has been going pretty well, even though I keep messing up. I think we got that straightened out today. Our lines are still a bit shaky in some spots, but other than that I think everything is going pretty darn well. The other scenes have been going pretty good as well. I can't wait for when everything will start coming together. It's going to be great.

Autobiography: Jessica

My name is Jessica. I am in my mid 20s and I am currently recovering from a break-up with my beloved boyfriend, David. My best friend is Liz and my favorite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany's. If you don't like this movie, you're completely insane. It's the BEST movie EVER!!!!!!!

I guess you could say that I am kind of obsessed with David. I like to follow him around. He's with this other girl and but I don't think that he really likes her. He told me he loved me. So, I think I'll just wait around until he decides to come back to me...which he will, of course, because he loves me. He said so. He is just confused at the moment. He's unsure what to do. But, he will figure it out. He always does. He will see that he belongs with me. Forever.

Oh, and another thing, Liz will try and tell you that I'm crazy, but I'm not. I promise you. There really was a pigeon and it spoke to me. It flew around my apartment and I could feel its beady eyes--watching me. He was evil I tell you! Pure evil.

Headshots

I forgot to edit this one more so you couldn't see the trash can.

These are the four I like best.

Monologue 3 First Showing

Monologue 2 First Showing

Scene 1 Final Showing

Monologue 1 First Showing

"When It Rains Gasoline" by Jason D. Martin....a funny monologue

ALYSA: Do you realize that tonight is the most important night of my life? On my God! Do you? It's like totally more important than cheer tryouts. It's more important than my first kiss, the first day of middle school, the first day of high school, the first day of Driver's Ed, more important that my driver's license, more important than any of my ex-boyfriends, more important than my current boyfriends...I mean friend. It is the pinnacle of the high school experience. The prom. Prom night. The night that I will remember for the rest of my life. I spent $600 on my dress. Anyway, Jane Hickman spent $1,000... She's totally a daddy's girl. For her sixteenth birthday, her Dad bought her a brand new Ford Explorer. For my sixteenth birthday I only got a two year old Taurus. Whatever. Some girls are born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She's such a snobby little rich girl. A little rich girl whose parents buy her anything she wants. Her parents have a swimming pool and tennis court. All we have is a jacuzzi. One time she told me she (Makes quote signs with her fingers.) liked my outfit. She's such a snob. I know what she meant. She was making fun of my new designer jeans. She thinks they're out of fashion already. Slut. Oh well, I'm not going to let Jane Hickman ruin the most important night of my life. My $600 dress is way more stylish than that over-priced rag she's gonna wear. That little bitch. That little slut. I'm gonna be homecoming royalty for sure. Homecoming queen! I hate Jane Hickman. Hicky Hickman, 'cause she's always got a hicky on her neck. That little hootchie mamma better not be getting on the royal court. I'd just kill myself if she was homecoming queen. I'd kill myself! It's bad enough that her dress cost more. It's bad enough she's got a pool and a tennis court. I hate my parents. I can't believe you're related to my Mom. She's so lame. At least you have money. We sure don't. Why don't we have a pool and a tennis court? My Mom is so lazy all she does is sit around at the computer. My Dad's never around. He's always at the (Makes quotes with fingers again.) office. Whatever that means. Like if he was at the (makes quotes one last time.) office, he'd be making money right? Well, maybe he needs to get his butt in gear and get his daughter a $1,500 dress so she doesn't look like a bag lady at the prom. That's what I'm going to look like. A bag lady! Jane Hickman is gonna be prom queen for sure. This is gonna be the worst night of my life.

"Macbeth" by Shakespeare...a classical monologue

LADY MACBETH: The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks that fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come you spirits
That tend on mortal thought, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctions visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound is makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry 'Hold, hold!'

"Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead" by Bert V. Royal...a dramatic monologue

CB's SISTER: Metamorphosis. Transformation. Evolution. Change. Evolution. Change. Changing evolution. I am a teenage caterpillar. I know of these things.  For soon, I'll spin a cocoon. And from the silk-like craft that I will create, a magnificent creature will emerge. No. Not a butterfly. For butterflies are a dime a dozen. Destined to flit about for a day or so, then drop dead. Or have its wings ripped off by a demented child. Or have its body pinned to a piece of cheap foam core and matted underneath a cheap frame and hung in the bathroom of an elderly woman who reeks of Preparation-H and Vicks VapoRub. This will not be my fate. This CANNOT be my fate. I will become a platypus. It's not impossible. It's just never been done before. It's only a matter of time, you see. If I stay in my cocoon longer, I'll change from a butterfly to a swallow to a duck and then from a duck to a platypus. It's only a matter of time. And time I have. I will wait to become a platypus. I will be an extraordinary creature..... And when I poked my head out of my cocoon, I realized I had stayed inside for too long. I had, unwittingly, gone from platypus to beaver to walrus to chimpanzee to a human. I had evolved much more than I even wanted to. Now I would learn to speak and learn to think and ask questions and make friends and lose friends and cry and laugh and maybe fall in love one day and maybe see that love go away and maybe climb a mountain. But I never wanted to do any of these things. Platypuses don't feel things, do they?

Scene 1 First SHowing

Response to Assignment 1

For this assignment we were giving these questions to answer:

1. What are your strengths as an actor?  What do you feel you do well?  Why?
2. What are the areas of opportunity for improvement you have as an actor?  What do you want to really work on this semester to improve as an actor?  Why?
3. What is something that challenges you or terrifies you as an actor?  Do you think it is important to meet that terror and challenge head on and face it?  Or avoid it?  Why?

1. I think my strengths as an actor are few. I am really good memorizing lines and can get them in my head pretty quick. But, I think I have trouble really getting them to sound how they are supposed to. I can do the exaggeration in the classroom pretty well, I think, but on stage I tend to "tone it down" a bit. I think I just have trouble putting it all out there. 


2. This semester I would like to really let go of whatever insecurities I have so I can, like I said before, put it all out there. I want to focus on putting emotion into the words not only in rehearsal but also on stage in the spot light. I think if I am able to do this, and combined with my epic memorization skills...I will be unstoppable. 


3.I don't think I have any challenges that "terrify" me, just ones that need to be worked on. This being said, I think I should face these challenges and punch them in the face. 

Autobiography

My name is Caitlin Marshall, obviously, and I am 18 years old. I have two younger sisters, one who has the same birthday as me. I was born on Pearl Harbor Day (Dec. 7) in 1993. I have 2 cats named Janie and Iris and 5 dogs named Dusty, Tillie, Willy, Maggie, and Little Man. I will be attending Anderson University in the fall and will be majoring in Biology and minoring in Youth Ministry. I have lived it Rock Hill for about 10 years. Before I moved here, I lived in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania. I town that is so small I have yet to see it on a map. We did have our own baseball team though- the Creekers. I'm sure that any of you that are reading this is probably going to assume that I am quiet and have no place in a theatre class...but ask any of my friends and they will tell you that I am supah obnixious. I just hold it all inside.

 I love to play video games and read. I run cross country and I used to play soccer. I am kind of a HUGE fan of Pirates of the Caribbean. I also love super hero movies or any kind of action/adventure movie for that matter--although Captain Jack Sparrow is my super hero. I hate any kind of movie that has animals in them. I cry like a baby when I see little cats and dogs hiding under a bush in the rain looking sad. I cant stand it. I like Ice Age, Aladdin, and Anistasia as well. Oh, and horror movies are the other kind of movies I don't like. I get nightmares. My favorite book series is The Mortal Instruments, but any book that has a lot of action and some kind of fantasy aspect is good. Teenage girlie novels are always good as well. When I was little I used to be a fan of country music, but as I got older, I came to like more alternative and pop. My absolute favorite artist is Jason Mraz, but I'm also a fan of Lifehouse, Neon Trees, Mumford & Sons, and Florence + The Machine....and of course I love some Glee. I watch alot of television. I'd have to say that my favorite, non-nerdy t.v. show is Psych. I also like Once Upon A Time, Glee, New Girl, Scrubs, and Warehouse 13. I love Discovery Channel, though. Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, and a ton of other shows are highly entertaining to me.

I don't know about you guys, but food is, like, the best thing ever. I eat pretty much everything except for brussel sprouts, Ranch dressing, ketchup...and that about it. I LOVE sandwiches, especially Reubens, and the Bacon Turkey Brovo from Panera....YUM. The basic ham and cheese with mustard is always delightful though. I also really like spinach and artichokes and peas.