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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

This is a much more descriptive title.

Yes, nothing happens.  But suprisingly, a lot can be said without plot movement.  Do you read this as a modernist work? or a Postmodernist work?

Indeed, and this work would be utterly meaningless if anything happened in it.  As for me, this is definitely one of those times I am torn when it comes to the distinction between modernism and early postmodernism.  I often too quickly put anything so cynical and crushing in the postmodern category, but I definitely see it fitting with the nihilistic tradition of some modernists.

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Fact 036: I’ve backed out of two shows before.

One I regret doing, but it was necessary because tech week (which they only informed us of the date AFTER we were cast) was the same week as a competition I had to go to for Jazz. Before you tell me my priorities are messed up, they’re not.  One, Jazz was a for-credit class.  Two, the competition was an invitation-only competition held in Dallas, TX between some of the best high school jazz bands in the nation.  Three, I had been practicing flugelhorn for months for the solo I had, and I’d be damned if I was going to let that solo go back to the tenor sax player.  Four, we won. Every. Single. Award.  Now while I regret not being able to perform in Godspell, a musical I do truly love, I do feel that I would have kicked myself far more if I had walked out of the competition.

The second time I do not feel was a bad choice in any way.  And no, it’s not because of my part.  I actually liked my part.  The problem was the play: Midnight Brainwash Revival.  I had never heard of the play before the theatre year, and I only got to read parts of it before and during the audition and callbacks.  I liked what I heard.  However, the first readthrough came, and I was horrified.  I hated the play.  It offended my ideals, it offended me on a religious level, and it offended me as a writer, because contrary to what some of the people thought who enjoyed it, it just was awfully written.  I sat through that readthrough, dreading spending the next few months with this play.  Ultimately, at the end of the readthrough i walked up to the director and told him that I could not be a part of something I couldn’t be proud of, and I walked off the production.  The school ended up taking a look at the play (something I guess they didn’t normally do), and told the director that he could not put that on at a Catholic high school.  So they changed performances, and I went to see the play they did perform.  I loved it.  I thought they did a fantastic job.

Fact 009: I absolutely love acting

My biggest regret in high school was that I was only ever in one play.  But I absolutely loved that play, and being in it was one of the best experiences of my life.  I’ve only ever taken two semester-long acting courses in my life as well, but both were fantastic.  I really wish I could do more.

Fact 010: Besides poetry, my favorite thing to write is playscript.

I’ve written only a few plays (and finished even fewer), but here they are, in order of when they were written:

The Secret Lives of Stormtroopers (abandoned years ago)

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2852548/1/The_Secret_Lives_of_Stormtroopers

Noncommital Noises (Finished)

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2391223/1/Noncommittal_Noises

Fill ‘Er Up (Finished)

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2312887/1/Fill_Er_Up

The Life and Times of Cicero Williams (Finished)

http://halberdierminister.deviantart.com/gallery/30273548#/d21j4o9

and on Fictionpress: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2519374/1/The_Life_and_Times_of_Cicero_Williams

Expanded rewrite of The Life and Times of Cicero Williams (currently in progress)

scene 1: http://halberdierminister.deviantart.com/gallery/30273548#/d3eya1n

scene 2: http://halberdierminister.deviantart.com/gallery/30273548#/d3f2ben

scene 3: http://halberdierminister.deviantart.com/gallery/30273548#/d3fjdwb

scene 4: http://halberdierminister.deviantart.com/gallery/30273548#/d3glv0w

And on Fictionpress: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2915735/1/Cicero_Revisited

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

This is a much more descriptive title.