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Friday, November 19, 2004

A dramatic story...

So in my drama class my prof tells us that "when you can convince an audience that the action is actually happening and get them to confuse the line between imaginative and reality you have succeeded." He then pulled me aside at the end of class and proceeded to tell me that I have a great talent for making people laugh in both my physical acting and the scripting I have written for myself...but, there's always a but in acting, though he has been drawn in I sometimes go to far for a laugh (i.e. the banana in the pocket scene) which though it gets a laugh it reminds an audience that it is just acting. So he challenged me to do something that makes the audience/ my peers forget that it is a stage, to go all out...cue my brain working overtime...So this mornings class I had written myself a new mini script/ scene, with new actions, new cheap laughs, a somewhat skeptic yet willing partner and a twist ending, entitled "The Line". The challegne had been set and I was more than up for it, and my goal was not to confuse the line just to the audience but to him as well. So the beginning goes off without a hitch..which actually started before class by sleeping on the couches out front of class and being quite disoriented...then asking if I can go to the washroom to get a drink of water 3 times...cue him asking if I was alright because I looked kind of sick...45 minutes into class my scene "begins" for most everybody...the laughter begins at our stupid antics of being 2 guys in a dance club (nothing spectacular but some clever dialogue and wonderful dancing aided the laughter)...cue the words running together, the faint and the falling super hard on the floor (which actually hurt)...at first a few chuckles thinking probably it was some sort of slap stick comedy...cue my partners carefully scripted "Adam, Adam are you ok. Oh shit..." He never got time to finish as the line had officially been broken and a prof that set out a challenge was knelt beside me with a crowd of a few people to turn over a huge smiling Adam uttering the words "and lights..." (you have to be in the class to kind of understand that but I think you can figure it out)...cue the somewhat shock on faces and the hysterical laughing of myself and my partner...cue the being taken aside again at the end of class and congratulated on causing the line to be confused...but (again with the but) to now put that same full out believability into all my work and to maybe give a guy some warning next time so that he doesn't (in exact words) "shit a brick"...for now I will relish in this victory and go back to cheap laughs and groans because my best jokes get the groans!!...Professor Jim Guedo and 25 drama students = 0, Adam Peters and Qwan = 1!!...honestly the highlight of my school year thus far!!

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