What are you most excited excited about for the year ahead? Nervous or unsure about?
I'm most excited about Theater this term, without any doubt in my mind. Not just in class, but in extra-curriculars as well. I honestly worked hard to find a monologue appropriate for my audition this year and I hope to have the chance to work on as much as I can involving theater so that I can approach my career in theater with as much experience as possible, with as much knowledge as I can regarding both technical theater and practical performance. I delved into a month long process of theater practice with the professionals of Berkeley Repertory and other Bay Area companies. I learned many aspects of many different parts of theater and I hope to use this year as a way to turn all of that knowledge into something easily comprehensible and accessible in my study of theater.
I am perhaps most nervous about the directorial workshops that will likely dominate the first semester of theater classes. But, at the same time, I am nervous in a very good, excited way. Directorial concepts are not something I have ever truly tried to look into as a practitioner of theater, but as I hear about them and as I begin to partake in a few of them, as we did with the Three Little Pigs in Junior year, I find that theater concepts are things that come easy to me. I am, perhaps, looking forward to them the most in that it will be yet another aspect of theater that I have yet to gain any substantial training in. I am honestly very ready to look into the thought processes of costume, makeup, lighting, set, and sound design. Each of them seem important to theater in a specific way, such that they must be included in the thought processes in one way or another, and that their use, or lack of use, must be purposeful in the process. Out of all the things I may come to learn from this, I am hoping to learn the most about using light and sound in productions, as my experience and interest in fashion has prepared me for costume and makeup, in the same way that the Balinese Shadow Puppetry project introduced me to rather abstract form of set design.
In terms of what I am truly nervous about in Theater would have to be the fact that this is one of the last years I have before shooting myself full force into the professional world of acting, and that this year is one of the most important years for me to define my serious interest in theater so that once I enter college, I can embrace my focus wholeheartedly and become something of an expert in my field, while still maintaining a good level of knowledge in all areas of theater. This is why I have chosen to incorporate Theater and Drama into most all of my Internal Assessments and projects in some way, so that I can gain a basic level of knowledge in the areas I have never before embraced, such as finding the historical effect of Boal's Legislative Theater and ways in which to incorporate surrealism into set design within my Extended Essay.
All together, I am very ready to embrace this year as a way to, in turn, embrace my journey through theater in all forms of life.
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