Monday, December 21, 2009

$25,000 R0b0t P@r@d3 Part 1

I'll just briefly sum up this last weekend. Friday night was Robot Parade. Due to illness, another improv show in town, and simply not being ready, the cast consisted of Nifer, Julie, Jenifer, Ashley, Chante', and myself...with some guidence from John. So I wound up being the only guy from class in the show...and no, I'm not complaining. However, looking back, I don't think I performed much in the first half. The most I remember was being in a few Roving Imp Shows and a celebraty location which had myself and Chante' playing Elvis (assuming Presley) in Camelot. I think the most interesting thing I did was die...but fake my death.
In the second half, we continued to play 7-Minutes In Heaven. But we started with a cocktail party with the suggestion "Past Jobs". By the way, Chante' and Nifer are both unemployed currently and I, as I stated at the beginning of what I said, had been financially unemployed for the past 261/2 years. I went on to tell about my expierence with Borders and Blockbuster...both the Shawnee branch. However, most of the stories involved poop. One had to deal with teaching high schoolers about Viagra...and water towers that were huge...and being in a small town...you know, double meanings and what not. The very last scene was "AND MY POOP LOOKED LIKE THIS". So I came out and said, "and it looked just...like...me..." Then John called scene and asked for the moral.
Saturday in class, we worked with the Harold and the suggestion of "False sense of Security." We gave a monologue opener and then did the 3 groups of scene and game, 3 groups of scene and game, 3 groups of scene. The one that I was in was I was in an office but I had an issue with "the yellow man" because my charicter had faught in 3 wars in South East Asia...WWII, Korean, and Vietnam...and the guy couldn't get over the fact that he thought it was still 1958...while it was 2009...and he had to put up with the fact that you first of all, had to call "the yellow man" Asians and second, get over the fact that they weren't a threat. In the second beat, it was 1958 and I was in Korea...and I was exactly the same as I was back in 2009. It's been a while since I've had to work with a charicter who is the same person but changes over time. Lately in both classes, our charicters have been entirely different people from the start of the long form to the end. I need to get used to the idea of changing a charicter while still being the same one...changed over time instead of different physical person entirely.

Anyway, I'll talk about $25,000 Pyramid and the rest of Saturday and Sunday and my Monday night class after I get home from class.

No comments: