Tomorrow, second session classes draw to a close, and I have just finished my final project for Set & Properties: design and construct a prop that fits a concept statement for a play of your choice. I decided to choose a play that I will have to read for one of my classes coming up, and I chose Buried Child by Sam Shepard. I love the play, I've read it before, and I chose my prop from there. SPOILER ALERT: There's a Buried Child in the play, and that's the prop I chose.
Yes, the prop I'm making is a dead baby. Ugh, I feel like a creeper. We had to do research, and turn in pictures and research as part of our grade. I'm in the library researching how long it takes human bodies to decompose, pictures of mummified babies, and other creepy things, and feeling VERY sorry for whatever poor soul has to use the computer after me and see all the creepy things I've been looking up in the history. I'm expecting the police to come searching for me any day now.
Oh well. All in the life of a theatre person-- researching bizarre topics to help make a show come to life. I'm really happy with my concept statement for the play, and my explanation of the prop. I have to finish all the detail work in class tomorrow, so it's going to be a race to the finish. I hope they don't mind me turning in a prop that still has wet paint.
In other grading news, I got a B+ on my Godforsaken Intro to Grad Studies paper. I think B+ is the most frustrating grade in the world. I WANTED AN A! Or an A-!!! Grrrrr... I've e-mailed him to see if I can set up a meeting to go over the things I was marked down on in my paper, so I don't make the same mistakes again. Some of them were 3am careless errors, and I'm SO PISSED I didn't pick up on them when proofreading. Other things he commented on confused me. I followed the format that I found in my MLA Handbook, and I wanted to check with him and see why the way I formatted quotes was wrong, and learn what I need to fix next time. Rumor has it, I still got an A in that class (or maybe an A-), so I'm REALLY happy about that.
I also had to do a play analysis in Directing 1, which I turned in this morning. It was a 6-page outline of my play analysis and Concept Statement. My professor handed it back to me at the theatre late tonight (he was there grading, we were there working on our props) and I received quite possibly the best comment I've ever received on a paper: "Excellent, evocative, useful concept statement. Way to go!" YAY ME!!! I jumped up an down like a giddy little school child when he handed it back to me in his office. It's been a rough day- waking up having to deal with a shipping mix-up for books I need for class on Sunday, and trying to deal with UPS shipping, which is horrendous and not at all helpful--I wouldn't even call it customer service because they basically told me there was nothing they could do to help me. Also being overwhelmed with the amount of work I have to finish by tomorrow... This happy news about my directing assignment made my day!
So now, I'm finished all my written assignments... All I've gotta do before I can say "I SURVIVED SESSION TWO!" is finish my dead baby, (I've gotta admit, it makes me laugh to come up with ridiculously inappropriate statements about the prop assignment) and study for an oral quiz in Directing 1 tomorrow morning.
WOOOOO!
Tomorrow I'll put up some pictures from the past few days (including Buried Baby Bob, as I have aptly named my prop!) For now, it's past midnight, the uploader is taking too long for me to wait for it to finish, and I've gotta rest up so I can pass an oral quiz in Directing in a few hours...
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