I'm pretty happy with having a valid excuse for not writing for weeks, being that I was in DisneyWorld and immediatly moved into my apartment not even two days after being back. And I had started writing a blog on one of those two days but it is now lost to the netherworld of scattered ideas that will never find a home.
I vaguly remember it being about how DisneyWorld revitalized my creativity and inspiration, but it was so well worded that I don't have the heart to try to re-create it. I'm the only one who'll miss its presence, anyway.
Right now I'm trying to learn everything I can about Walt Disney, starting with a biography of him written in the 80s in which he's portrayed as a monster. Its more interesting than everything that portrays him as a saint, but it's pretty annoying when you can tell that things are being purposely twisted. But I guess in our society, the man has been turned into a myth and is now equated with something more like Santa Claus than a human. And when people find out that he wasn't a jolly man who waved his hands and produced magic from thin air, they get confused and indignant.
I would love to become an imagineer, though. Because you can't deny that they bring joy to thousands of people everyday, and that's a completely appealing career to me. Remembering that it's a viable career choice is the challange.
Anyway, I'm just brushing up on my theatre history by re-skimming plays before tomorrow's oral exam that'll determine whether or not I have to take the Theatre History course at Sarah Lawrence. Thank God I just went through college otherwise their list would have made me pass out. I will post it here for my general amusement and procrastination. Paranthesis hold my choice when applicable.
The Orestia
Oedipus Rex
A play by Euripides (The Bacchae)
A play by Aristophanes (The Birds)
Aristotles' Poetics
Shakespeare: 2 tragedies, 2 comedies, 2 histories and a romance (King Lear, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Richard II, Richard III and The Tempest)
A play by Cornielle or Racine (Racine, Britanicus)
A play by Moliere (Tartuffe)
A play from the Spanish Golden Age ( I couldn't find one to read, but I researched Lope de Vega, the period's hotshot playwright).
Restoration Comedy (The Country Wife)
A play by Goldsmith or Sheridan (this I didn't do)
Woychek
Two plays by Ibsen (Hedda Gabler and Doll's House)
Two full-lengths by Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull)
Two plays by Strindberg (The Ghost Sonata and Miss. Julie)
A play by George Bernard Shaw (Major Barbara)
A play by Brecht (Mother Courage)
Two plays by Eugene O'Neil (Long Day's Journey and The Iceman Lalala)
Two plays by Tennessee Williams (Streetcard Named Desire and Glass Menagerie)
Two plays by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and All My Sons)
A Raison in the Sun
A classic "book" musical (Carousel)
A play by Ionesco (Rhinocerous)
Two plays by Beckett (Waiting for Godot and Endgame)
That actually helped me realize I know more than I think I do. I'm still nervous for the oral exam, mainly because it's oral and I suck at speaking exams.
There's a picnic at 3 that I'm trying not to wuss out of going to - I just hate standing around awkwardly, especially in an outdoor area. BAH! I'll try to force myself out, maybe just due to pure starvation (we didn't really go grocery shopping yet....).
Meanwhile, I will continue to look over stuff in the hope of not having to take Theatre History!
'Til then.
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