This is the end. The end of ten weeks. The end of a chapter. Then end of this tiny portion...and yet what a portion! Thanks to the awareness work Patrick Quagliano made us undergo every day....I think I can speak for my entire class in saying that we experienced more life in the past ten weeks than we would have in a semester of college. Thankfully now I can take that INTO my coming semesters! It's rather exciting...
The last week of classes was so normal that we kept forgetting it was coming to an end! It was rehearsals as usual, and presentation of scenes, and discussion of "Danny in the Deep Blue Sea", and eating lunch in the little brick park near the studio, and laughing hysterically at the things in life worth laughing about!
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| Scene Partners for "Other Desert Cities" |
I love these people. I love the talent I'm surrounded by. I love the talent they've DRAGGED out of ME! I just love it. I knew a lot about myself going into this summer, and now that I know twice as much as I did before, I look forward to the years and years of learning yet to come :)
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| Scene Partners for "Ludlow Fair" |
So. Stella Adler. What are they about? What did I learn? Why on EARTH did I do this ten week intensive, and what EXACTLY did I learn?? Well, I've managed to condense it into a few thoughts...and it applies to theatre AND life, so get ready:
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| Just...just...jamie :P |
You've got theatre/life. You have a objective that carries you through your play/your life. It's whatever you WANT or NEED. Then you have all the ways you'll attempt to get it. And all the ways you'll connect to your partner/or the relationships in your life. So do it. Try. Explore. Play. But keep reaching for your objective, and have FUN being in life, being in relationships, playing with people, playing off people. That's all there is to it.
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| Scene Partners for "Twelfth Night" |
Don't quote me. Patrick Quagliano may come find me and shoot me for getting it wrong or something...but I'm pretty sure he'd approve of my words...he'd just have a million more genius thoughts to add to it, with all his experience :)
So thank you for reading. Thank you for following me this summer. Thank you, thank you. I have so many people to thank, and I've decided to pour that into my work. My music, my directing, my acting. It will all be a gift. That will be my fuel, my goal, my objective. To gift it to whoever will accept it, whether that's the actors, the audience, the people I work with, WHOEVER!
This is it. The secret of flight.
I fly back to Jackson tomorrow, I am so excited for the year to come, and the years after that. There's a lot coming and I can't wait.
Blessings,
Ginny
