What a weird week.
Well, not weird as much a complicated.
Monday started off it all. It was auditions for Caucasian Chalk Circle, the mainstage this fall. Tuesday, everyone got callbacks, and Wednesday only 10. Casting came out on Thursday. The show has 65 or so roles, and we're doing it with 13 actors. Three of my roles I'm really excited for, and the others I'm not very familiar with. One is called the First Doctor, so no need to explain why that's cool. Another one is a farmer's wife, which will be my first speaking role that is female. And this is my 40th production. The only other one I know that truly means anything to me with only having the bits of the script we used for the callbacks is a role called Nephew. needless to say, he is the nephew of someone--but that someone is a prince who is tryung to place my character in power as a pawn. He is nicknamed "Little Fox" and just oh my god its like the director knew that they are one of my favorite animals and it couldn't be better yay.
We get our scripts and start rehearsing tomorrow.
On Wednesday, I was trying to do training for my work-study. The job requires I know my way around Hartwick's website's content management system (CMS) and how to create in it. So that is what I was learning. My computer had been giving me issues for quite some time--blue screens, insisting on boot that it did not have an OS installed, not lancing applications, thinking programs weren't even installed when they were running in the background--the usual (#Sarcasm) so I brought it to the tech center. Well, apparently it was having issues reading the hard drive, which is being replaced. I should have it back tomorrow. They gave me a loaner in the meantime. Hopefully their back-up was successful. I've heard reports of it being not so. Either way, my really important stuff is on Dropbox or Google drive, so I'm not overly concerned. The only real loss I can't think of is my single-player Minecraft world and the ready-to-upload video of
Imbalances., the show I did this summer.
Friday at 7p kicked off Hartwick's 7th annual 24-Hour Play Festival. This year, I stage managed one of the plays and it was absolutely fantastic. My good friend, Brian, wrote it, and it was directed by Lynda, another friend of mine. The cast and story was fantastic. It was about a college junior, Clarissa, who is about to leave (like, her plane leaves that night) for a year-long study abroad in Europe when she finds out her father has advanced cancer, and may not be there when she gets back, and she has to decide whether or not to go on her trip, keeping in mind that he Dad, who is a single parent, has worked very hard for her to be able to have this chance to see the world, which is a chance he never had. Ultimately, she goes, knowing that it is what her father wants to do.
Now, as I think I wrote last year, there was a black out that nearly meant an outside performance for last year's 24. This year, we have new LED lights (they're sooo cool!) and it was the first time they were being used, and about half an hour before the show was to start we started smelling a smelly smell that smells when you smell the smell. Many of us were very concerned that something was going very wrong in the dimmer pack (in short, its the connection between the console where the lights are controlled from and the lights themselves). It smelled like our old vacuum cleaner, which I always thought smelled like velvet, but not in a good way at all. At first, Campus Safety was called, but, to say the least, they were a tad out of their element in a technical aspect of theatre. They were, of course, worried about fire, and for a few minutes the show was going to happen without the lighting and just the florescent, which was really tragic because having the LEDs make it so we basically can use any colour at any time, so the lighting was beautiful. But, after a call to the technical director, who postulated that it was just some dust burning off as it was the first time the lights have been being used this semester, and were on for while, it was decided that it wasn't very likely to burst into flames, so we ran both shows, successfully, with the lighting. Yay! I have to say that I think it was the best 24 yet.
NEXT WEEK
Monday: Rehearsals for Caucasian Chalk Circle start. It will be my first mainstage at Hartwick.Th rehearsals will take over my life, but that's a good thing...right? I also have my first day of my other work-study.
