something in the way of things

I’ve been holding off posting because I was working on trying to get a review of the magnitude 4 live musical eargasm that assaulted me between the 17 and 21 of September, but it hasn’t quite managed to get finished, so I’m officially breaking the silence, due to some things of vague note that have occured.

I got a role in the McMaster School of the Arts Fall Major Production of Shakespeare’s Henry V this year. I play two bit-characters (Sir Thomas Grey of Northumberland and the Duke of Bourbon), which is cool cause I almost have my lines learned already. And Grey gets shot in the back of the head execution style which is totally sweet and all I can really ask of a role. The play is very modernized and significantly cut down and altered to be about the Iraq War and also war in general and the media and how people are convinced that war is good, but it’s not meant to be preachy at all.. just a bit kablam! and a lot of multimedia images, music and video etc. A lot of it reminds me of Babylon 5 in various ways.. the whole political/war aspect, which is tres cool. I will also be involved in the production aspect through my stage managing class, and it seems like it will be a really wicked production, so the tres coolness continues. The only sticky bit is that rehearsal means I’ll have to be here pretty much every Sunday until then, except we’re not currently scheduled for one on Thanksgiving. And if we end up having one, I’m not going to go, because I’m going to London for Thanksgiving and no one can stop me.

Just so you can all make plans to come see it:
-November 18, 19*, 20*, 23, 24, 25, 26*, 27-
-at 8:00 (*2:00 p.m. matinee also)-
-Robinson Memorial Theatre in Chester New Hall, McMaster Unviersity-
-Tickets: (905) 525-9140 x 23333 to reserve-

Additionally, last night I went up to Toronto on a MACSTFPA (mcmaster society for theatre and film and the performing arts) trip to see Family Stories: Belgrade which was directed by Sasha, my acting prof two years running. It’s termed a ‘slapstick tragedy’ and is about 4 kids (played by adults) playing ‘house’ during the NATO bombing of Belgrade. And yeah. It was the best piece of theatre I’ve seen in my entire life. And I’m not saying that because I know the guy who directed and he’s such a cool dude. It just was. Hilarious, touching, tragic, ridiculous, haunting, important, challenging, affecting, resonating, enlightening, even perhaps potentially offending. Really everything I would ever want in a play. perfect set, amazing actually probably flawless acting, awesome music and multimedia, and a killer script. No one that went on our bus could even pretend not to like it. Wow. So, if there’s anyway you can go, go. The theatre would have had 4 people in the audience if not for our class trip, and this is one of those things that everyone should see, it deserves to be seen. It runs until Oct 8.

This past weekend a girl I know named Val came up from London to see me. It was completely, and completely unsurprisingly, awesome.

My Ipod broke last week, I finally got my new replacement and guess what? It broke within 2 days. At this point it’s hard to even bother being ticked off about it, so yeah. Except, from what I understand, it appears that my replacement this time might be a new colour one (unf still 20 gigs, not 60) so apple can get a few DCPs for that, but probably not enough to get them out of the deep hole they’ve fallen into.

This weekend.. Ted Leo on Friday and Dead Can Dance on Saturday!

There’s a great deal of other interesting things probably but I’m not saying what because you smell a bit funny.