Week 4

The journalling is slipping! Week 5 has already begun and here I am writing about week 4.

I did have one small victory last week: I finally finished one journal entry for my theatre theory class. The entry was on Stanislavsky, and ended up being 10 pages long. Obviously I need to work on being more concise! Now I just need to tackle Meyerhold, Copeau and now Artaud as well. Phwoar, the list is growing... :-( Today's discussion on Artaud was interesting though - I have better understanding of what is actually meant by "Theatre of Cruelty" now. I feel so sorry for Artaud though. He lead such a frustrating existence - such total inner chaos that he was incapable of expressing. After all, the medium over which he seemed to have the most control was words - yet he writes about the incapacity of language to express higher truths and the need to break verbal language down. Last week's lesson was on Copeau, and once again I think I will reserve comment until after I've done the theatre journal.

To be honest, not much of last week really struck me as anything special or new - we're not working on any projects at the moment and I spent most of the week doing paid work to keep afloat. The one thing that did strike me though was doing a couple of acting exercises in Milton's class. I don't know if I've talked about this on here before but I actually love acting. It's not that we were actually doing any acting at the time, but we were doing exercises that have value for actors and they felt good. I miss acting a lot sometimes, when I'm working with actors or watching performances. I want to study it, and know about it from the inside. The more I think about it the more I realise that it's something that I'm going to have to do, otherwise I will just get more and more frustrated. I think I will join a community theatre or something.