"Fight For The Fun"

We sat and watched the first years' presentations of Basel Masks today, so they watched our Vaudeville class, which made the atmosphere more scary...but also much more alive. We worked on a one-act play called Mais N'Te Promène Donc Pas Tout Nue (Don't Walk About With Nothing On). The whole play is basically a big argument between Ventroux and Clarisse. It starts with Ventroux unhappy with how little Clarisse is wearing around the house (and the free show the neighbours are getting) but soon turns into an argument about everything. I think that's great - a play that is just an argument. How simple!

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Ben and Sophia had a go improvising first up, and totally nailed it from the beginning. It was fantastic. Crazy, fast, full of fun, great complicité, very funny. At one point they were both standing on chairs and refusing to be the one that gets off first. Ben ended up moving across the room standing on three chairs (pulling them along as he hopped on them). At another time, they both were furiously taking off their clothes as fast as they could to make a point.

"Exactly that. You do that with the text and it's perfect."

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After this spectacular opening nobody else wanted to get up! How do you beat that? But eventually Thomas and I tried with Thomas in drag (something he's been trying lately under the encouragement of Philippe). Our scene worked out really well too. We have fun to play together as we're good friends, and plenty of games came along. "Fun is good. Game is good." Especially with Thomas dressed as a woman. Talking about her cheating on me, or giving birth to our baby, or saying "catch me", all worked better with Thomas as a woman. I felt a bit like I was a bit frantic, rushing around the stage at times trying to save us by myself. But Thomas took control as his character and told me to stand still, "fixed point", and claimed that "I am in major. Look at me." I feel like I am accepting games and playing well at the moment, but I'm not necessarily offering many games myself. But maybe I am. It was good though. I was happy with our work.

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"Fight for the fun."

"We have to see a wife who knows exactly how to tease."

"You have to have the fun to pretend 'I am an actor'."

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Eventually, I plan to finish one more Victoria University theatre paper in order to get the degree I started back in 2004...and I'd like to do the 304 Directing course...and a one-act play by Feydeau would be a great play to do!

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Another Cabaret is coming up this February 23rd. It seems Philippe wants to have one at the end of every first year workshop now. So I'm trying to be a bit more onto it this time for writing numbers. I have an idea involving Michael Jackson's song Childhood. 

We'll see if I can make something work...