Saturday, July 9, 2005

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Hullo.

Wow ^^ I'm getting back into the habit of updating at last weekly now, instead of two monthly. That and I'm getting back into visiting sites...

The reaosn I was so negligent of MO before was mostly school: Recently they have been cracking down on homework, mess left in the locker room, changing rooms, form rooms etc...And with the added pressure of Exam week and the few that followed of marking and finding out results (not to mention several large blips on reports), both teachers and students were pretty stressd out. Well, all that was over, but then, being the ambitious person I am, just had to go and audition for the school play. I wasn't expecting to get in, as nearly the entire lower school audtioned for parts. I didn't get an acting part, but I did get the part of a dancer, and I get to die twice (burned once, then just randomly collapsing on stage).

The dances are reasonably okay: I had to do this really odd tribal dance (which I get burned at the stake for @_@) which is so uber embarrassing for the five of us doing it. Luckily, we get to wear masks so nobody will recognise us.Then we have to do a Morris dance >.< For those of you who know what morris dancing is, you'll know why I'm beggining to regret getting the part. But despite that, we do an awesome Bhangra dance with gymnastics and everything. 'Tis very cool!

The play itself is based on some short story by Edgar Allen Poe (who does disturbing horror stories ^^ My personal faveourite genre) about the plague in a village.

There is an evil prince called Prospero who neglects his people, and leaves them to die of hunger and thirst. One day, after Prospero and his procession come throught the town, a mysterious Red Man with a hidden face comes to the village, and kills the villagers by means of the Red Death (a.k.a The Plague). Upon finding out about this plague, Prospero invites all of his rich and powerfulf friends to his catsle, and locks them all in the protect them from harm. They have food and entertainment (which includes our dances, a juggler and some random chorus), and a masquerade(sp?) which they are not allowed to wear red to. However, some idiot lets a girl and her associate in, desperate to find some good entertainment that will please the prince. Unbeknown to him, the Girl's associate is in fact the Red Death, and the girl has offered herself as a sacrifice to save the village from the plague.

So, after the entertainment of the Masquerade ball, the girl and red death eneter, wearing red, which prospero has forbidden them from doing. The Girl does some Ballet dance, then the Red Death gets to killing all the people in the castle.

For our finale, everyopne rises up and wanders very zombie liek out of the hall. It looks very creepy from the audience...

Anyways, it's not actually very interesting to watch apart from the odd bit or two. The Red Death has some very long monologues to say, and they say them painfully slowly >.<

I'm NEVER auditioning for a play again though: I've had rehearsals evrey night for Two hours for the past two and a half weeks.

Well, nothing much else interesting happening in my life at the moment. I still haven't finished my new manga >.<

Oh yeah: 6 DAYS 'TIL HARRY POTTER!!!

^^:;

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