The most amazing show that I ever had

2 May 2012 ( Wednesday)

Today is our final exam and also our performance day. OMG! I’m so nervous! I’m so scared that I’ll forget my lines again.

No longer, the show starts. My eyes actually open wide like a gold fish’s eye, everyone’s performance are so real! OMG! Now I feel pressured. Ishhhh!!!

Left half an hour and is my play! Ok, Wilson stay calm, stay calm. Just like last time, just give it all! Take a deep deep breath! * inhale, exhale* Phew, everything will be alright. Applause heard and I going to make this a great show. The stage is mine!!!!!

During the play, we all changed everything. I feel that we’re really in the pub and I hope that there will be laughter during our play. Well, just a little. After that, my play finished and I think that I didn’t good enough and I feel that this time is even worse than the rehearsal but everyone(classmates)  told me that I did well and I treat it as a comfort. Ishh! Hope that Mr. Rey like it.

After around 20 minutes, our show finished and we all go on stage to give a bow to the audience. Everything is done!!!!!! Finally! I met Miss Pat, my Theatre 101 lecturer and I ask her about my play and she says that I improve a lot! YES! Mr. Rey gives everyone a hug and praises us. So I ask him about my play also, I didn’t disappoint him! Thank you! Another thing, Mr. Rey postpone the deadline for our journal. Thank God! Thank you again Mr. Rey!

Before we leave, we take a group picture and clean up all the stuff in the experimental theatre. Good job guys and I’ll miss you all! Also thanks to Mr. Rey for the teaching!

2 days rehearsal

We’ve been spending 2 days for full dress rehearsal and that is Saturday ( 28 April) and Sunday ( 29 April). We practice this in experimental theatre ( our classroom) and I feel that experimental theatre is like my another home.

Saturday

-Mr. Rey works with the groups that are quite weak.

-interaction with audience, use space and tone.

-Me and my partner rehears ourselves.

-Full dress rehearsal

Sunday

-Complete full dress rehearsal

-Help each other’s play ( giving comments)

-watch Theatre 101 students performing ( don’t know what they are doing at first, they didn’t prepare well)

Object exercise for Woozey Woo!

Woozey Woo! ( by Robert Macadaeg)

Who am I?

-My name is Aaron Ben Tucker. A freshman from University Buffalo. He is a nerd who wants to be cool.

Where am I?

-I’m in a pub and learning how to spike a drink, so that I can become a famous guy in pub and many girls will like me.

What time is it?

-Is almost midnight. Tomorrow I’ve class but for the sake of being famous and like by many girls so I’ve to master this technique.

What surrounds me?

-Colorful spotlights, Techno music, hot men and women dancing on the dance floor and some of them are drinking. Salazar, the pro in spiking drink is teaching me how to spike ( a shot glass of whiskey and some mickey pills).

What are my relationships?

-Salazar is sort of like my teacher. I want hot chicks stick to me so I’ve got to learn and master the technique of spiking drink.

What are the given circumstances?

-Get it down the technique then hot chicks will stick to you. If you don’t master it, you’re wasting your time and money and no hot chicks will stick to you.

What do I want?

-I want to master the spiking technique so that many hot chicks will be beside me.

What is in my way?

-Salazar is teaching me his technique but I don’t want to follow it and I recommend mine to him. Salazar disagrees.

What do I do to get what I want?

-I argue with Salazar.

Full costume and props for play (1st time)

20 April 2012 ( Friday)

Today is the day we use all props for the play. So I dress up like a cool dude and waiting for my partner. No longer, he arrived and he calls me to buy a Coke to treat it as beer for the play and Mr. Rey is happy that I pick the correct prop and that is the NY cap. HEHE! Thanks Mr. Rey!

After watched a few student’s play, now is our turn. So we exactly what we do in rehearsal but we just start our play not long and Mr. Rey starts to improvise us. The tone we use must be appropriate, sometimes the sentence of the tone is slow or fast or strong etc.  After that, Mr. Rey orders me to use up more space-walk around. So basically, use up more space and use appropriate tone.

Now is waiting for Mr. Rey’s prediction grades and comments. Listening other groups comments from Mr. Rey and grade prediction, I’m kinda scared because everybody’s comment is like “ You’re lower B bla bla bla bla bla…” “ Now Zong Zong’s group.” Oh no this is scary and I’m nervous… “ Well, you both did well and is around higher B.” Did I listen wrongly?! OMG!!!! The prediction is HIGHER B!!! Woohoo I’m so happy! But Mr. Rey said that we still have much more work to go on. Anyway, we will do better during the performance.

Characterization Sheet

Name    : Aaron Ben Tucker

Nickname : Nooby

Age : 19

Birthday : May 2 1993

Culture : White

Place : New York

Social Class : Lower middle class

Parents : Lovely parents

Siblings : None

Biography

Adolescence : During the age of 14, always want to try to talk with girls but ignore by them. Hence, he thought that he have to be cool to tackle girls.

Physical characteristics

Aaron wears a black hood jacket and a cap. He has a moderate body size.

He always act cool and walk like some sort of hip hop dancer. He stands like a gangster, he always rub his nose with his index finger when he is thinking something. His voice is a bit high and he speaks quite fast.

Blankly watching other students' performance

16 April 2012 ( Monday)


Today, Mr. Rey wants to help the Wednesday group students with their final play because last week's Wednesday is our country's Ah-Gong's birthday so is a public holiday. So, me and the other students in the Friday's one either we stay in class watch them to perform or go outside the class and do our rehearsal.

I want to look what is their play about and also we're kinda lazy to rehearsal for now. So we find a place to sit and watch their play. The 1st group is Celine and Teck Sern's play. Starting scene, Celine open the door and she mumble a sentence to Teck Sern which I can't hear it clearly. Yeah, Mr. Rey also says that to them. REPLAY! So again, Celine opens the door and says to Teck Sern that don't walk to loud. Ok from this sentence, I can see that most probably is talking about a baby and probably they are husband and wife. Then the line continues that Celine is like showing Teck Sern the baby but surprise me is Teck Sern actually say the baby is ugly. WTF?! And they start mumbling again, man this is so tiring and boring I can't really stand it if they keep continue doing like this. Thank God! Mr. Rey keep improvising them with that few sentences that I just mention. From the open door part and then the way of their talking-tone. I seriously still can't get it what are their relationship are they best friends or husband and wife or what? =.= Man I'm losing concentration now.

No longer, their turn end. Now is Wei Lim and Filza's turn. Also another one, mumbling =.= but this mumbling is loud but not clear LOL! So Mr. Rey improvise them with emotions,feelings,tone and also spacing. I'm getting sleepier =.=

Lastly is Lih Seng and Valerie's group. They are pretty good but not really realistic that's what Mr. Rey said. Their play is like talking about a guy and a woman their secrets have been dug up and the guy is frustrated about this and the woman came and sort of like convince him. Their scene is at a bar. So their improvisation from Mr. Rey is not that much but he said to them that they need to improve more.

So from all this play and improvisation that Mr. Rey taught them. I sort of get some idea about my play.

Pre-show time

13 April 2012 ( Friday)

Today is the day we need to present 2/3 of our scripts and also we need to set our scenes. Ish! I hardly can memorize it, there's too many long sentences OMG! Ishhhhhh!!!! C'mon just memorize it before the class starts!

Memorize, memorize, memorize! YES!! Finally get it down. Hope that my partner also get his lines down. Mr. Rey is here! And he gave us 20 minutes time to make ourselves be prepared. Nice one! Me and my partner quickly take our scripts and walk out from the classroom to get an empty space. Ok let's begin! We practice as usual.

No longer, one of our classmates tells us times up. Crap! Hope everything will be fine later. 1st group is Eric and Joshua. Their set up scene is a table and they both sit facing each other. Begin with Joshua eating his imaginary burger so the scene is sort of like McDonald's but the scene they set up, for the audience they only can see their side face and hardly can see their emotions. So they kinda forget the Theatre 101 exercise-blocking. They should've  adjust the chair at 45 degree so that the audience can see what they're doing. Besides that, I can't hear what they're saying. No projection. Of course, Mr. Rey comments them about their voice projection and also their actions and tones. So far of Mr. Rey's improvisation, they only manage to complete not even 1/3 of their scripts. HAHA! Yeah! This also goes to everyone including us.

Next is our turn, we set up 2 blocks as a bar scene and the most shity part is we can't find any stools for our bar scene so end up we standing and we use 2 empty bottles as the whiskey glass. Once we start, Mr. Rey starts to giving comments about the tone and yeah we did it. COOL! Like it! But... man, things just screw up like this-Forget lines. I seriously don't know where to continue. So we just continue. HAHA! Before Mr. Rey stops us, he tells us that we have to used up the space that we have when we're on the stage. Then is Vhina and David's group. Their set up is kinda cool, I dont know how to describe it but is like 2 of them stand on their own positions and do their own monologue. After that is Sam and Lycel's turn. Their play is about a woman stuck in the elevator and she was asking for help. Thus, a conversation begin with sort of like a guard. Something interesting happen, I can't believe that Mr. Rey actually wants Lycel to take off her clothes and left bra and panties because it is part of the script. Man, I feel pity on her. If she really does this on the performance, I wonder what the audience will think.

Another New lessons

9 April 2012 ( Monday)


Another day of lessons again~ What is it again~... Everyone is here warm up again. Ish!

Now, Mr. Rey freezes us again. He said imagine a character which is heavy and slow, directly. He gave us about few minutes to think about it. Of course we have to walk around and think of it. This really stucks in my head-"Who am I?". Hmmm... Yeah! Think of one! After that, Mr. Rey tells us to show how is your character walks, how is your character wake up and be prepared. Well, my character is a gym trainer and he walks quite slow with his shoulders open widely. How is the character wake up? HEHE, mine is easy. He woke up, straight go to the bathroom brushes his teeth and take a shower then go to gym. But before that, " Something unexpected happened!" Mr. Rey said. So, while I'm brushing my teeth, I saw a cockroach under my legs. Yeah! Shocked! And straight step on it but it ran away. Never mind, continue preparing... Next, what is your character doing now. My character is now building his muscles, slowly, take his own precious time. Again! "Something unexpected happened!". Ok, I actually like heard someone is arguing something, so I just take a quick look and then back to my own business. Last part, Mr. Rey says that our character now is in a karaoke room and we need to pick a song for our character. Great! I don't know what to pick, so I just simply sing a japkor ( japanese + korean) song. HAHA! Unexpected! Mr. Rey points some of the students and want them to sing it. He wants to see how our character sings. OMG but lucky, I didn't get picked. *Phew*

Next character is light and fast, direct. Easy! Within a few minutes I've already got one and that is gangster. Yeah! Like the previous exercise. Of course this character is a fast but lazy. Lazy in don't like to wake up early and room is messy. What is his job? My character's job is collect money-loan sharks. Freaking fast when doing his job. Unexpected happened! I ran away because the cops are coming. Now in karaoke room. My character sings like hell, he yells and he dances.

Another one is heavy but fast. Yeah! Who am I? I'm a businessman, manager rank. Always in a rush. He is a strong and powerful character. Wake up, rush to toilet then to work. In the office, unexpected happened. I receive a phone call from a client. Karaoke room again. Well this time my song is slow and lovely. HAHA! This character loves it. XD

Last one is light and fast but indirectly. Great! I don't know how and I just do it. LOL! I'm a runner. So Mr. Rey asks us to count 1-20, how our character counts it. Yeah! my character counts like he is doing a warm up. What my character do, he always jog every morning and he is an athlete. Something unexpected happened again. I accidentally sprained my ankle. Karaoke time, my character sings energetically ( High). He sings Justin Bieber's "Baby". Mr. Rey wants me, Adam and Wei Lim to sing together. LOL! So is like a triplet. HAHA!

Before class end, Mr. Rey asks us our comments about this exercise. This is freaking cool! And Mr. Rey said that we can actually use this exercise to find out what is our character look like for our final performance.