Spoon River class. We continued the analysis of last week's verses and heard the new ones from the peeps who missed last week. There really is so much in each verse. Edgar Lee Masters REALLY knew what he was doing. There's a good reason why Sandy Meisner chose this book as an analysis tool. It's quite simply the best book in America to identify real human emotion and the art of 'doing'. You may scoff but if you're serious about acting, you need to read and understand each and every word and moment from each and every story from everyone in the book. Thes stories are real people with real emotion. No psychoanalysis. No reading between the lines, no stories to make up. It's all here in black and white. Amazing.
We were told that we need to rehearse these at least 6 times before the next class!
Picked up the monkey and went to the movies for his first EVER film in a cinema! We went to see 'Cars' as we thought that would be the best one to hold his attention (if it were possible). For the most part, he did sit still and watch it until near the end when he became a little restless. I thought the film was very good. I had heard mixed reports but I really enjoyed it.