Love poems are easy to write:
Full of simpering words and weak clichés.
If I had to,
I would write you thousands,
Maybe in their sum
They would mean something
But no.
I will never sink that low.
Instead:
I bought you sunflowers.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
RAPS 2011
So for these last couple of months I was involved in the RAPS 2011 One-Act Play Festival. This annual festival takes place every year at the Wits Theatre and on average 40 schools compete each year. As usual, Parktown put in two plays. We only open these auditions to grade 11 and 12 boys and send the juniors to the EADS festival. I was lucky enough to be cast in our 2nd or "B" play; Are you normal, Mr Norman?, as Mr Norman himself.
I was so happy to finally get a role I could sink my teeth into! Admittedly though it did scare me playing such a fractured role. I was so worried I would take the issues home with me but I lucked out and really got into my character without him getting into me.
We performed in the first round on the 31st May and by some miracle made it through to the second semi-final on the 10th of June along with Greenside and St Benedicts as well as collecting six nominations (two more than our "A" play, Attitudes). I was nominated for Most Promising Actor and we also got ones for Best Actor, Best Stage-Manager, Best Cameo, Best Comedy and Best Hand-Drawn Poster. Attitudes was also nominated for Most Promising Actor and Best Comedy as well as Best Director and Best Ensemble. That's ten in total for Parktown, more than any other school.
Unfortunately we didn't make the final but as my nomination earned me a free ticket I attended anyway. The three plays on the night were all incredibly good and way above student standard. I dare say that if we had made the final, we would have been royally thumped. Randfontein performed a heavy drama about lesbianism and love triangles (which was by far the pick of the plays and easily collected Best Production) followed by Greenside's physical theatre piece written by the same woman who wrote the Vagina Monologues ( so not my style but still good) and Cornwall Hill's version of a RAPS favourite, This Is A Test.
In the end my fellow Parktonian, Leighlind Daniels, collected Most Promising Actor and I fully think he deserved it. Parktown also won the three best awards on the night by far. Mr Norman won the Spirit of RAPS award which gets us season tickets (with a +1) to all three theatres at Montecasino (SCORE!), Attitudes as the first play to ever produce a video trailer in history of RAPS were given a secondary Spirit of RAPS award that gives them season tickets to the Theatre on the Square and yours truly walked away with the Tweeter of the Year award, although this isn't an official award, which gets me a day on set with Passionfish Studios, which is run by Megan Godsell, the festival director, which is sooooooooo exciting!
All in all an unforgettable experience and one that has me seriously reconsidering my decision to study Journaliam and not Drama next year.
-Stu
PS You can check out the trailer for Attitudes at:
http://bit.ly/mUeTSq
The little coloured guy in the white scarf is Leighlind
I was so happy to finally get a role I could sink my teeth into! Admittedly though it did scare me playing such a fractured role. I was so worried I would take the issues home with me but I lucked out and really got into my character without him getting into me.
Unfortunately we didn't make the final but as my nomination earned me a free ticket I attended anyway. The three plays on the night were all incredibly good and way above student standard. I dare say that if we had made the final, we would have been royally thumped. Randfontein performed a heavy drama about lesbianism and love triangles (which was by far the pick of the plays and easily collected Best Production) followed by Greenside's physical theatre piece written by the same woman who wrote the Vagina Monologues ( so not my style but still good) and Cornwall Hill's version of a RAPS favourite, This Is A Test.
In the end my fellow Parktonian, Leighlind Daniels, collected Most Promising Actor and I fully think he deserved it. Parktown also won the three best awards on the night by far. Mr Norman won the Spirit of RAPS award which gets us season tickets (with a +1) to all three theatres at Montecasino (SCORE!), Attitudes as the first play to ever produce a video trailer in history of RAPS were given a secondary Spirit of RAPS award that gives them season tickets to the Theatre on the Square and yours truly walked away with the Tweeter of the Year award, although this isn't an official award, which gets me a day on set with Passionfish Studios, which is run by Megan Godsell, the festival director, which is sooooooooo exciting!
All in all an unforgettable experience and one that has me seriously reconsidering my decision to study Journaliam and not Drama next year.
-Stu
PS You can check out the trailer for Attitudes at:
http://bit.ly/mUeTSq
The little coloured guy in the white scarf is Leighlind
A slight change...
Ok so I'm gonna be changing the format of this blog a little bit from now on. I'm not simply gonna be posting my literature on here but also news of anything I'm involved with at the time. Also since I'm turning 18 next week I'll also be monetizing this blog so you'll be seeing a few ads here and there but they should be targeted to my audience as it's using Google's AdSense program.
Cheers
-Stu
Cheers
-Stu
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