monday-first day with phil.

so cherry orchard is complete!

nothing happened to the story!nothing.it was just like a day in the life of this family.i appriciate the realness and calm of everything.but besides everyone coming back from their trip and then the party and then lopakhin was rude and annoying when he was buying the orchard and hes being unreasonable with cutting it down.

my heart went out to the family though.like that orchard ment so much to them.and that house.that was their life and then lopakhin just comes in and has to take over.he was their friend though!i would be nice and kind and give it back to them.that was there everything,but lopakhin came and just cut it down.

but i did love the ending.i was trying to picture that and even though it was sad for fris he died in the place where he lived.that was his life too.he worked for them for a very long time.and he dies were i think he was the most happy.and how it ended with the cutting down of the orchard.with the lighting,that would be so beautiful,just watching the shadows and hearing the sounds.

so cherry orchard down.one more play to go.

class with phil...

today helped alot.phil had us create our "collapsible surroundings" and then have one position looking at something at a distance.then have a second position.the exercise that helped me the most,was this mirror exercise.he told us to look at a "mirror" and see our character and figure out, body part by body part basically,how we could recreate our character's body on ourselves.then recite the lines of our monolouge in our characters body.i saw that jeannie was more that the defensive bitch i've always saw her as.that at first she wants tom to feel like crap for what he did to her.but that soon she sees that this is a man i used to be open with,and she opens up moreand lets out what was eating away at her for so long,she still makes tom feel like crap but not consiously she opens for herself,but it hurts tom at the same time.

also i saw her more physically.i used to see her as the strong powerful female with a wall that no matter what you said wouldn't come down.but really she's very fragile and raw underneath.so rather than always being strong she,even physically breaks down and LOOKS defeated.not just feels defeated.

so its different than i thought at first.i was afraid because my monologue came off very fake.but now i see that i was doing it completely wrong,that i wasn't fully seeing the character and her setting and what was going to happen.i always saw my setting as on a stage but today i saw it as a real room in the real world,not a set in a play.

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today i really spoke up in class and i saw what phil wanted us to do.i feel like i understood my monologue a thousand times better because of what phil taught us today.i was participating and i read and wrote my blog today.plus i worked on my review which i emailed to you for comments.