Second Class, Level 3 – Tactics

Zoinks, late with the posting this week!  And no excuse to speak of…or does laziness count as an excuse in the swingin’ 21st century?  Let’s just say it does.  Now Claradippity, and I’ll get started with the tale of class number two over at the OSSD. Chugging along with our level 3 course centering, for [...]

First Class, Level 3 – Return of the Audition

So after a lengthy, early spring break between semesters (or 1 week, however you want to count it) it was time to haul ass back to class at the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama.  It’s level 3, kids, the end of the ‘Get Into the Act’ road.    This time, it was promised we would [...]

Final Class, Level 2 – Steve at Last

We’re finally here.  Two weeks late thanks to snow and sickness, but we made it, almost all of us (except for Andrea who we sadly lost to a scheduling conflict, boo) to the end of Get Into The Act level 2 at OSSD.  And as it was the day after my very first audition (yes, [...]

Ninth Class, Level 2 – Sex on the Beach

Spent a fairly calm and relaxed day off yester, enjoying some much-needed sunshine, getting a delicious Ada’s breakfast into my battered frame, and of course, reading some comix.  I may or may not have had a lingering, day-long headache from some overindulgence after a long week of drudgery the previous evening, but that’s neither here [...]

Eighth Class, Level 2 – In Peter’s Words

Right, right, I haven’t done the class post yet.  I know, it’s been DAYS.   We’re almost at the NEXT class, and I have no particularly good excuse.  The dog ate my homework..? I was having one of my moods that last wednesday, I have to say.  I was downright motherfucking GRIM all day.  to the [...]

Seventh Class, Level 2 – the Perch at Picton Place

We’re lurching madly towards the end of level 2 classes, and things are getting exponentially more interesting and scary.  I creaked my way on in, still mighty tender following the Hot Sauciness of Alix Sideris and her movement workshop on the weekend.  I felt a slight twinge of shameful glee that Barry Karp wasn’t teaching [...]

Sixth Class, Level 2 – the Chicken and the Atom Bomb

Turning into an odd week, theatre-wise…I ended up missing a show I’d been planning on last night, and may end up missing another one (at least for this week) tomorrow night.  With all apologies, but I just found out the freaking ZOOBOMBS are hitting the Dominion tomorrow night.  Oh yea…I’m hitting that. But still not [...]

Fifth Class, Level 2 – Bunny, Bunny, Bunny…

So I was GOING to blog about how terrible a mood I’ve been in for the past few weeks?  All this dark stuff about self-destruction and suicidal thoughts and all that cool stuff…?  Only THEN I realized that, as of tonight, I had something like four new blogposts I was now officially due to write [...]

Fourth Class, Level 2 – Beat Yourself to Death

I’d had a rough night of it the eve before class this week, I won’t lie.  Oh, the play I saw, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, was a god-damn delight, ’tis true.  But, as is often the case with borderline manic-depressives like myself, things took a dark turn by the time I got home, and [...]

Third Class, Level 2 – Heavy

We had a snow day last week.  Ordinarily, when your school gets closed from a blizzard, it’s cause for joyous celebration and wild, toboggan-fuelled orgies.  Not so, however, when you actually LOVE your schoolwork, as if you take an acting class, you probably do.  So I was a bit bummed out when we got the [...]