Learning Log 7

Hello everyone!! Boy, it had been quite a long time since I blogged here! I almost forgot my password to it. :) Anyway, today's blog post mostly consists of my experience throughout the preparations and the actual performance of Romeo & Juliet. How time really flies when you are having fun. Well the day of our actual performance eventually came on Thursday the 15 of September and boy, were my members having butterflies in their stomach. Our director, Phania, got all of us to run through a few final rehearsals before we got into our costumes and had our make-up done. Fortunately, we had Phania’s mother to thank for her make-up skills. She transformed Clarence into a middle-aged Lord Capulet and Sanjna into a stunning Juliet. My ,my was I amazed!! After make-up, we set-up the props and Ms Malyannah prepared the camera for the filming. When it was time to act, our audience which was 2 Integrity rushed inside through the back door and when we entered, there was total silence. Ms Maly checked our forms and with that it was 3, 2, 1. ACTION!! The music played and as I was one of the dancers, started to dance. Everything went by so fast. It went from the Tybalt’s angry scene to the kissing scene shared by Romeo & Juliet to the last part where we all got together to thank the crowd in Indian. In my opinion, I think everyone did well. Especially Sanjna and Anirwin, the Romeo & Juliet, who got scolded time and time and again by our director and Clarence who coached them on how to do a proper kissing scene. In my opinion, I also think that although being a costume manager does not require saying any lines, it is sure a tough time searching for them. This whole experience had certainly been memorable. Come to think of it, Justin who acted as Tybalt really had a hard time making his hair spiky and his make-up stand out as well. I find it a bit amusing, don’t you think?? Anyway, he did a splendid job being Tybalt. I would recommend this to the juniors as I am sure they would find the whole experience a memorable one in fact. I hope we have more things like this in the future and if there is, I perhaps would want to try out my acting skills. Won’t you??