Creative Pressure

Last week was a unbelievable week of learning for me. I had two final presentations due within 2 days and I can honestly say I had never felt more underprepared for either going into the final rehearsal. I am a type A personality so structure and scheduling are my best friends. I had to throw caution to the wind this week and let creative pressure drive me. I am so proud of my midterm group members for allowing our pressure and stress about the scene to take over and allow us to have an amazingly productive and successful final rehearsal. The last 4 hours we spent on our piece before presentation day were the most meaningful and productive hours we put into the whole piece. It goes to show that editting is so important and we had to learn to be unafraid of cutting things like mad men and starting from scratch. Looking back on all the things that we cut I can't believe it, we had so much great stuff and so much horrible stuff. I am so glad we could come together to pull out the important stuff in time to make it rain!

I am looking forward to the next few weeks of class, I already feel intrigue to Edgar Allen Poe and the thought of obsession. I like that both of these inspriations are universal, I was talking to my roommates yesterday who have no theater background and lets face it, think my classes are just weird circus shows. They both knew who Edgar Allen Poe was and were fascinated to hear about his obsessions with death and lonliness. I want to explore more about what it would have been like to have your life encompassed by the darkness of obsession with such soul sucking things. I am looking forward to seeing where our collaboration and creativity takes us!