We started the term off as children, which involved wearing ridiculous clothing and playing even more ridiculous games. We then moved on to grotesque creatures, who had strange bodies made of tights and stuffing, cardboard, duct tape, and other supernatural materials, and who came from other worlds and were therefore very confused about all the crazy things that happen here. Next was social grotesque, or "pouring acid on the head of the high-ups": my group decided to make fun of technological addiction, so we were a group of teenagers at a rehab center, learning things like how to make eye contact and not answer a ringing phone. My character was a goth, and boy did I have fun with it! And now we've moved on to clown, which I've basically been waiting for for a year and a half. Each of us got to go to "the dead zone", where you stand in front of the class wearing a clown nose and do "nothing". It's absolutely terrifying, and inevitably something comes up (usually the last thing you expect), and there's a clown! My current clown is extremely shy, ultra-sensitive, and easily scared: she wears rainbow wellies, huge blue trousers, a tiny black shirt with a technicolor Tinkerbell on it, and a rainbow earflap hat. Her name is Peep. We're also exploring cabaret, and the outrageous, for which I'm planning to return to the goth character and explore what happens when she's asked to be the godmother to a baby. I've already purchased a baby doll and made some fake blood. ;)
And that's the term so far! I'm really having a lot of fun with the comic territories, more than I thought I would actually. It's also a lot of hard work, since comedy is probably the most difficult territory due to its demand for precise timing and control. There's a reason why we do it last. It's also mind blowing to realize that there's only a week and a half of classes left! The last two weeks of this term are devoted to rehearsing for our final presentation of the term, and then next term we pull together a "best of" for our public presentation, and then the last month or so is devoted to our final individual projects. Crazy how time flies! I'm happy with the work we're doing now, looking forward to the various final presentations, and also looking forward to Austin. Life is good! :D
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