Reflection of First 9 Weeks

  Over the course of this first 9 weeks we have accomplished many different projects.  We've done everything from scene work with a partner to monologues to scenes with a group of people.  We have also learned different techniques in each area that help make your performance better.  We did a unit on auditioning.  To me that was the biggest help.  We learned what to say, what to wear, how to carry yourself and what to bring to an audition.  We prepared our own resume for the audition, so it was helpful knowing what to put in it, and how to set it up.  So far this quarter, my favorite activity has been what we are working on currently.  The scene with our group.  During the process of rehearsing this scene we have really gotten closer as friends and even as a class.  I feel like as the weeks went on we have become more comfortable in front of each other doing whatever, because we have spent the past 9 weeks doing crazy stuff infront of each other.  So we aren't afraid to be ourselves when everyone is  around.  It's been an AWESOME 9 weeks.

Autobiography: Trish

     Hi! My name is Trish. I am a nurse at my local hospital. I also work the front desk, but when I am needed I will head back to whatever injury awaits.  As a child I always enjoyed helping people any way I could. My father was a doctor and my mother a physical therapist, so I suppose you could say I have a pretty experienced medical background. I was an only child so I grew very close to my parents and went to work with my dad a lot.  I fell in love with being at the hospital that I decided, at a very young age, that I wanted to become a nurse.  And here I am.  I have always been the one to follow the rules, as a child I got called a goody-goody. I am a very professional person, and I feel I am good-hearted.  I try and do the right thing for everybody, as best I can.  While I say all of this I must admit I do get frustrated very easily.  When somebody refuses or disagrees with my suggestions and rules, I try everything to change their mind or find a solution that will benefit everyone in the situation.  As I said before I love helping people.  In case you are wondering, I am not married.  I suppose i spend so much time doing stuff for other people that I don't really have a life outside of my work.  But someday, soon, I would like to start a family.  And have kids of my own.  I love kids, always have. Maybe someday I will get the opportunity to be a mother.  That is my goal for the future: get married, have kids, raise a good healthy happy family.  But right now nothing like that has come my way, so I will focus on my work.  Oh! I have to go...a new patient is arriving.
Hope You Enjoyed All About Me
-Trish 

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Monologue 3 First Showing

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Monologue 1 First Showing

Monologue #3 (classical)

Romeo And Juliet
By Shakespeare
Character: Juliet

Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush repaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say "Ay," And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully: Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light: But trust me, gentlemen, I'll prove more true Than those that have more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.

Monologue #2 (comedic)

30 Reasons Not To Be In A Play
By Alan Haehnel
Character: Cecily

Because you're just, you're just, you're just too shy. You...you can barely get two words out of your mouth in front of an audience. Whenever you have oral presentations in class, you, you, you, you just take that zero. If somebody tries to force you, you start to cry. A play? Oh, no, no, no. You're painfully shy. That would kill you. You would just die from embarrassment, staring out at those light, knowing that people are sitting there, judging you- judging what you're wearing, what you're saying, the way you're standing. You'd be mortified! I mean, it's a completely unreasonable request, to ask you to be in a play. They might as well tell youth stand against the wall so they can assemble a firing squad and have you shot, right? You're shy, remember? Hands-freezing, armpits-dripping, knees-knocking, head-pounding shy! Is that a problem? Is it? Just because you're shy, can't you be allowed to just stay in a corner and be that way, or does this society absolutely require that, no matter how traumatic it might be, you have to get up on stage and do whatever some script requires? You're shy, darn it! Shy, shy, shy! So what, if the script says sing the ABC's like n opera star, do you have to go ahead and start singing away? A-B-C-D-E-F-G! That's way too much to ask of a shy person, I'm telling you! If the script should require that you grab some strange guy and hold him close to you like he's your favorite teddy bear; if it commands that you stroke his hair and grab his shirt as if you can't live without him...are you supposed to just go ahead and do that? No! You're too shy! If the script calls for you to kiss him passionately...You see! He's to shy for that and so are you! You can't be in a play and you can't sing opera and you can't grope some guy and you just can't possibly make a fool of yourself in front of a crowd full of people because YOU ARE JUST WAY TOO AMAZINGLY, INCREDIBLY, PITIFULLY.. shy.

Monologue #1 (dramatic)

Be Aggressive
By Annie Welsman
Character: Laura

Is that all there is to say? 'Cuz that does;t mean anything. In 1971, I wasn't even around yet. But that's when she was really alive, I think. She had a grey streak in the front of her hair. Premature grey. She had it for years until she finally got sick of the giggles and stares and she dyed it like the rest of them. I don't even remember barely. I was so little. She used to tell us things, but I barely remember and I can't ask her again! I can't say, "Hey, Mom, tell me things I never listened to! Tell me how to do things! Tell me how to bake sugar cookies so they're soft in the middle! Tell me how to sweep my hair back so it stays with just a pin. Tell me what it feels like when your water breaks and a baby comes out!" I don't have anybody to tell me that! I hate my dad! I'm sorry, but I hate him so much! How could he just keep going? I don't understand how he could just keep going! Is that what happens? You're young, and you believe in things, and then you, what? You get marries, you have kids, you move into a Spanish stucco ocean view unit and you forget? One day you wear you white streak like a peacock's tail, and the net day you're letting them paint it with bleach and toner and wrap it in tin foil and sitting under a his dryer to cook for an hour while you learn lip-lining tips from a beauty magazine! Like everybody else! When you sit under those dryer domes, you can't hear a thing. You just have to sit there quietly and let all that stuff soak into you. She's really been gone for a long time. I don't want to be a dead person. I want to be a person who's alive.

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Strengths & Weaknesses As An Actress

             I feel like as an actress I have a natural stage presence and the ability to embrace a role to make the audience feel comfortable with my characterisation of the role, I also feel like I take direction and suggestions well from other fellow actors and the directors.  I would love to improve being able to develop a character more easily and also improve my ability to make, and feel comfortable with, my own direction and ideas instead of only direction from others.  This semester I want to work a lot with audition settings. Because I get so nervous in auditions and I feel like I never perform my best and the director doesn't see what I can really do. So I want to be able to go into an audition with lots of confidence and not be as nervous and have the ability to show everything I have to offer. One thing that really scares me about acting is drawing a blank on stage. Forgetting my lines or the lyrics to a song would be awful, I wouldn't know what to do. For some people that would be considered a challenge and they would have the opportunity to practice their improv skills. But for me, I am so bad at improv, I have never been good at it, and so I would really be at a lose for words if I went blank on stage. I guess you would have to face that fear head one. Because if you avoid it, then you will never improve as an actor. To face that fear and try to prevent it, I would study my lines over and over again until there is no doubt that I will remember them. I should probably work on my improve skills too, that is just the one thing that I never felt comfortable doing and have never been very good at.

My autobiography

My name is Maddison Marie Brannon, but I go by Maddie. I'm a sophomore and I'm 15 years old, about to be 16, my birthday is January 29. I have never lived anywhere else but here. I am a born and raised southern girl. I have two siblings, one brother, Grant, and one sister, Mckenzie. My brother is a senior this year and my sister is a junior in college at The United States Naval Academy. The idea of my sister being in the Military is scary, but it's a really cool feeling also. I am and have always been a really strong Christian. God has done some amazing things in my life and I can't wait to see what else he has in store for me in the future.
 I was home schooled in elementary school, some people say that home schooled kids are weird, it's totally not true because look how I turned out :) and I went to Saluda Trail Middle School. I have always been in all honors classes. I have been acting sense I was about 5 or 6 for my church. I've taken a drama class sense 6th grade. My first big play was in the 6th grade, with Rock Hill Community theatre under the direction of Mr. C. I use to be super shy when I was little and I only talked to the people that I knew really well. When I was about 4 I didn't talk to anybody, only my family, people actually thought that I was a mute because I never talked to them.
I play soccer for the school, I also played volleyball for school, however this past season was my last for volleyball. I have danced for 11 years, and recently stopped last year because of Volleyball. I wish I had stuck with dancing because I was in sooo much better shape when I danced every day.
My favorite food is Mac & Cheese! I LOVE monkeys and the color blue. I am obsessed with Johnny Depp! And my favorite movies are the Sherlock Holmes movies, AMAZING. I have two dogs and two cats, I'm not too fond of my cats but I love my dogs, most of the time. One weird, strange fact about me is that I am allergic to Honeynut Cheerios, they make me sneeze every time I eat them. And I am a HUGE people person, I try to love pretty much everybody:).