Sunday, April 13, 2008
Up Pompeii!! Oh and some more acting
Well thought I would say a little about another acting class I have been attending of late, which was arranged by our acting thesp and social network organiser Scott (let's face it we all owe this guy alot of credit for organising well... everything!) and one of our former art of acting tutors, Iain McAleese is taking.
The classes take on pretty much the same format as before, and the group are mostly people from our last Acting 4 class, all of which are a nice bunch of people, so its good to get invovled with them. The class also includes one of our acting 3 classmates Ann, who was terrific in Acting 3, and shamefully did not get into RSMAD when she auditioned! So far we've done a fair bit of improvisation in pairs from scenarios given by Iain, fairly soon we will get on to doing scenes from a few plays chosen by Iain. Iain has said he will go a bit deeper with his approach and probably push us a bit more than he did in the "Acting" units so it'll be daunting and interesting to see how we get on.
Sooooo onto something else, tonight's episode of Doctor Who, Fires of Pompeii was rather a good one. After a slightly (no pun intended) shakey start it got pretty good and also featured a nice bit of moral dilemma drama, should the Doctor try and save the people of Pompeii from the fate of Mount Vesuvius's inevitable explosion or should he let them perish to preserve historical accuracy. The cast were also on pretty good form too, Peter Capaldi was entertaining as Caceillius, and Phil Davis hamming it up wonderfully as the villanous Lucius. Catherine Tate also manages to shine in this story at certain points too (and I don't really care what some people might think of her looks, but I think she looks pretty cute in this episode) especially confronting the Doctor towards the end about the fate of Pompeii. David Tennant what can we say is on fine form and he can easily juggle between the light hearted gags and the life threatening drama, although I must admit in this episode especially he did do a bit too much eye bulge acting (mind you he always does it!). So I look forward to next week's episode with those strange Ooddies (probably not quite as amusing as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and the other one).
Oh and finally went and saw Supergrass tonight at the ABC, and they were pretty good, but my left ear is still ringing. Ah well. Nuff for now.
The classes take on pretty much the same format as before, and the group are mostly people from our last Acting 4 class, all of which are a nice bunch of people, so its good to get invovled with them. The class also includes one of our acting 3 classmates Ann, who was terrific in Acting 3, and shamefully did not get into RSMAD when she auditioned! So far we've done a fair bit of improvisation in pairs from scenarios given by Iain, fairly soon we will get on to doing scenes from a few plays chosen by Iain. Iain has said he will go a bit deeper with his approach and probably push us a bit more than he did in the "Acting" units so it'll be daunting and interesting to see how we get on.
Sooooo onto something else, tonight's episode of Doctor Who, Fires of Pompeii was rather a good one. After a slightly (no pun intended) shakey start it got pretty good and also featured a nice bit of moral dilemma drama, should the Doctor try and save the people of Pompeii from the fate of Mount Vesuvius's inevitable explosion or should he let them perish to preserve historical accuracy. The cast were also on pretty good form too, Peter Capaldi was entertaining as Caceillius, and Phil Davis hamming it up wonderfully as the villanous Lucius. Catherine Tate also manages to shine in this story at certain points too (and I don't really care what some people might think of her looks, but I think she looks pretty cute in this episode) especially confronting the Doctor towards the end about the fate of Pompeii. David Tennant what can we say is on fine form and he can easily juggle between the light hearted gags and the life threatening drama, although I must admit in this episode especially he did do a bit too much eye bulge acting (mind you he always does it!). So I look forward to next week's episode with those strange Ooddies (probably not quite as amusing as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and the other one).
Oh and finally went and saw Supergrass tonight at the ABC, and they were pretty good, but my left ear is still ringing. Ah well. Nuff for now.
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