Feels like tradition to start posts with something along those lines.
School is over for the term, so I've actually got time to update now.
If I were to write about everything I've done over the past month this entry would just drag on and on, so instead I'm going to post pictures. Hopefully that will make this entry more entertaining. Here you go:
Some folks from my course and the NYU contingency studying at RADA got together at a lovely house in south London for Thanksgiving (the weekend before though, as we had class on the day). You can't see it, but there were about 20-30 people there. It was such a lovely, international thanksgiving. I love sharing Thanksgiving with people from other countries, so obviously I had a great time.
The weekend after Thanksgiving, I hosted yet another Thanksgiving party for some of the wonderful folks I met at Birkbeck's International Orientation. This one was much smaller (only 10 people) and far more traditional, but still international (3 countries represented). It's not a group I get to hang out with often since my course is incredibly demanding (more on that later) so it's always nice when I get to see them!The following few weeks after Thanksgiving were absolutely INSANE. I had a 4000 word essay, a 4000-6000 word portfolio, and one hour devised performance all due within one week of each other. It doesn't sound too bad until you consider that because of how close together these assignments were due I was regularly spending 12+ hours a day in at school either researching, rehearsing, or in class. Everyday for two weeks. I don't think I slept more than four or five hours a night generally...and that was only on a good day.
The sole exception to this is when I was given a free ticket to a show with a 100% sold out run. I had wanted to see it since it's at one of the best theatres in London and is based on one of my favourite movies, so when the chance came (luckily on one of my few free nights), I jumped on it.
It was Let The Right One In at the Royal Court Theatre. It's a play about vampires. It wasn't bloody enough for my tastes (I mean, people get beheaded in the movie, but they didn't do that here) but other then that it was quite good. And it was free, so I'm not going to complain. :)
After that was just nothing but working and performing. I'd post pictures from the show I worked on (it was a reaction/adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II) but since all the photos we have from it were taken inside RADA and they are very big on copyright, I can't. If you really want to see some, ask me in person and I'll happily share. I just can't put them online.
Anyway, once school ended on the 13th I took a few days of much needed rest and relaxation before finally jumping back into real life on Wednesday.
And by "real life" I mean I went to a tea party and played dress up.
Don't we look lovely?It was for my friend Irina's birthday party and it was so much fun!
They even had gluten free foods for me! I mean, I paid extra for it, but the fact that they even offered it was pretty damn cool. Plus, they gave me all the same things as everyone else, just the gluten free version. Not all places do that, so it was nice that I never felt left out :)
After that we went to a drag show at a place called Freedom Bar. I'd post pictures from that, but Irina specifically told me to make sure they never get posted anywhere, so I'm honoring her wishes.
I ended up not sleeping that night because I decided to rush a show called Coriolanus.
It stars Tom Hiddleston, so of course it means that rushing the show (aka trying to tickets that are only sold from the box office the day the you want to see the show) would be insane.I decided to do it on a Thursday because it's a two show day, so twice as many ticket would be available. I got there far earlier than I'd like to admit (sometime before 5am) and waited until the box office opened at 10am. Luckily I'm good at making friends with people who are in line with me, or I would have been absurdly bored.
I ended up getting tickets to the evening show and it was SPECTACULAR. Seriously, if you're in London you need to try and get tickets because it's truly spectacular. I will admit that I found the sound editing to be very strange at times, but the other elements of the show fit together perfectly.
Today my friend Hildegunn came to town from Norway (whom I met while she lived in Kansas), so I spent a few hours with her, wandering around London, eating, and taking photos for my dad's class's Flat Stanley project. Here we are in a phone booth in front of Big Ben (aka this is the most typical "London tourist" photo I'm ever going to take):
It was a really fun day and it was so nice to see a friend from home. I think I needed that :)
