Memorizing Lines

At this precise moment, I am sitting at work reading lines from the play I was cast in back in December. The play is Tennesse William's famous work, The Glass Menagerie. I play Tom Wingfield, which is the lead part in the show. Anyhow, as is my policy, I procrastinated hard-core. I had all of winter break to potentially be working on lines. I had all of the month of January while we were blocking scenes. But like a dumbass, I only memorized the first three scenes. On Monday, we are running Act I off book. Guess how many scenes I have left to memorize for Act I?

I'll tell you.

Three scenes. Three long, grueling, wordy scenes. Additionally, we are running Act II off book on Tuesday. That's two more lengthy scenes that I haven't even touched yet that need to be ready to go a mere day after we run Act I. This is scary. Luckily, I work at a place where I am required to stay awake all night doing nothing but monitoring my clients sleep. This leaves me with many, many hours to pace around memorizing. It doesn't make the job any easier, though.

In other news, yesterday evening was the SCSU film organization's big film festival. "Cinescope" hosted a roughly 3 hour event called Cinema Silence.

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It was an okay time. I guess my only complaint was that almost all of the film entries were highly experimental and expressionist pieces of art. A few of them here and there would have been fine, but the entire show ended up being very alternative. I will admit it was a little exhausting to watch. The film I submitted (which was created in the Spring of last year) was the only one that I considered to be classically entertaining. Entitled Don't Vote For Chris, it featured simple, easy comedy. It was definitely a crowd pleaser, especially after the monotony of so many dry, confusing films.

The finale of the evening featured the premiere of Cinescope's newest production, Cinemapocalypse. I was very excited to see this film, as I had auditioned, been cast, and performed in it. It was very funny! All around it was a good night.

Anyways, I have to go memorize lines like a frickin maniac now.

Cody M. Logeland