A Kiwi In Paris: Day Twenty One - "When You Think You Break The Balls Of Everybody...You SHUT UP!"

I slept in this morning, rushed to the laundromat to do my weeks washing, and then sat anxiously waiting for it to finish as the time I needed to leave to make it to school fast approached. But I made it to school so all was well!

I had a good day in class today. Not that I was amazingly successful - I had good moments and bad - but I felt more relaxed and willing to jump up on stage without any fear, which was great. Philippe set the scenario in which a family is at home doing their thing, and two policemen enter because a crime has been committed by one member of the family. I jumped up when Pedro went up (who brought in a new character today which we all immediately fell in love with - I wanted to work with him because he looked like he could be my son or my brother) and we did a scene in which Pedro and I were drug dealers. When I entered I didn't bring in anything new, and the scene already began to flop. By the time the police entered it was too late and the scene was ended. I thought I would have fun playing with Pedro's new character, which I did, but I had no complicite and made a bad entrance. Flop flop flop.

I got up a second time with Juli as my partner. When I entered Juli was flipping over her tarot cards. I had fun with my character making fun of her and her tarot cards. Juli and I had good complicite and were being light together. When the police arrived things started to flop. I could have helped avoid this by having more of an opinion of the police. I kind of just invited them in happily, but that felt right for my character at the time. Feedback: "You talk too much. But okay. Not horrible."

Notes:

After Alex's rough day on Friday, he came back fresh with a new character outfit. Up on stage he was "not excellent" and wanted "too much". After this feedback he started to play a bit which was more positive. Philippe got him to play with the flop around his body and share this with the audience.

"Aggressiveness doesn't belong on the stage. You can pretend to be aggressive, but the real thing does not belong on the stage."

"How many times did you think 'Ah! Perhaps it will soon be my turn to have my scene, to be in major, and be the star of the show for fifteen minutes?"

"When you think you break the balls of everybody...you SHUT UP!"

When you enter you have to be in major, and you have to change the situation.

I need to seriously work on my posture. I sit slouched in class which makes it harder for me to be tall as a performer. I need to be tall all of the time! I am tall!

Noticed my nerves aren't bad at all today. Just daring to discover.

"You have to be a large tall actor [Irene]. Not this little girl."

"We need to see the humanity of the actor beneath the character. You must show your beautiful humanity. We see an image, but where are you? Where is the humanity of this actor?"

After class a group of us headed at Saint Michel to go and see the David La Chapelle exhibition that's been advertised around the city for a while. We arrived at 8pm and there was a huge line (the exhibition closed at 10pm). So we flagged it and instead went for a drink.