Showing posts with label CALIFORNIA DREAMING. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CALIFORNIA DREAMING. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Saint Plays: Directing vs. Acting

The production that I was working on recently finished just in time for me to come home for half of my spring break! I was the Assistant Director and Set Designer, which means I helped the Director analyze the script so the actors could understand it, and helped her add movement to the words to make the story make sense. I also helped think of ideas of what environment would be best to tell the story in, by being Assistant Set Designer.

Here's the set with the actors and director below:

The bathtub was a huge part of the play, it was used as a bathtub, a car, and a jail cell!


I really love being on the artistic team of a play, much more than I ever loved acting. (Tutu this is for you! :) I am able to participate in making a piece of living art, instead of following directions and trying to do my best on my performance. I love reading a script and thinking of ideas of how it can be expressed on stage and with what materials, resources, colors, images. It has become my entry way into the theatre world since I changed my major/life path. I may still pursue some acting in the future, but this has been so artistically rewarding and fulfilling, I'm going to keep with this for a while!

Monday, January 31, 2011

Boots win, Snow fail

Obsession has hit with my latest purchase. I hope hope hope they come tomorrow, since its supposed to snow again all night and day. Finally my feet won't be wet and freezing.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

What my life has become...

The past two days have seemed like a play that I'm getting really bored with and can't wait for the intermission. Here is a quick scene...(Barbara is my host mother).

BARBARA: Do you like my boots?
(barbara enters alyson's bedroom and proceeds to put her fake leopard skin boots up on the bed in front of alyson's face, dangerously close to alyson's laptop) They're like skin!
ALYSON: Oooh.
(She feels them hesitantly.) Ugggh. (She makes a sound of seemingly joking disgust, but that is really based in 5 months accumulation of real disgust.)
BARBARA: It's a dead leopard!! Ha Ha Ha.
(She walks out of room without another word, opens the door to the apartment with her keys and exits.)

The great parts about these past few days are when I'm listening to Harry Potter 5 on the way to the library, skyping my family, and dreaming about all the good things that will come when I'm done with all of this work.

Monday, July 5, 2010

IguazĂș Falls

This weekend was a whirlwind...Friday night - Saturday morning we spent on the bus, once we got there, we watched Germany beat Argentina :(, ate, hung out by the pool of the hostel and slept. Sunday was waterfalls day! We spent all day at the national park, taking in the wildlife, the falls and the jungle! Then Sunday night - Monday morning was more bus time!

It was all pretty surreal, but really beautiful. My thoughts are elsewhere, mostly residing in California, and so this beauty was hard to even understand.

Here are the pictures. I'm so lucky I found such awesome people to spend time with and share this magical adventure with!

Friday, June 25, 2010

Smattering of thoughts...

I have 4 days to write about 8 more pages about tourism, plays and symbolist theatre. This is what I'm thinking about....

New favorite blogs:
blog.caseybrowndesigns.com
inthewabe.wordpress.com
jayandelle.blogspot.com

I made this little cupcake one day and had to fill it with toilet paper because I don't have any polyfil :( I want to make 4 more for all my friends!
I made this little cabley pouch in midst of reading plays and "doing homework"...
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. El billete de 50 pesos. If you cover the eyes and the bald head, he looks a lot like R.D.V.
Possibly the statue that I am going to draw this weekend for my final project in my art class:
What I will be doing when I get home to Cali:

Movies to watch:

-La Vie en Rose

-Dead Man Walking


Crafts to make:

-make a dress

-embroider things

-finish little birdy mittens (i have made one!)

-tote bag with mexico fabric bought in 2002


Books to read:

-Tulsa-Toni Morrison

-Will Grayson, Will Grayson -John Green

-Harry Potters

-david sedaris