Big Empty

With a class consisting of just another student and me today, things were quite relaxing? I believe it was a block period, meaning that we had even more time to ourselves than normal. The day's regimen was pretty much up to my classmate and I. The only instruction we were given was to look through the two tomes on make-up left out by our teacher. Finishing our technical unit, I guess we've began the make-up aspect of performance. These books provided just about everything possible about make-up from how to recreate aged hands to false eyes. Even though a majority of the pictures provided were in black-and-white, the entire process of applying make-up wasn't particularly comforting to look at all. Actually, when they demonstrated how to practice a majority of the techniques, I found myself cringing at just how real make-up was able to make the actors appear. After poring over the make-up books, we worked on finding our Shakespeare monologue for next Tuesday. The only restriction we had for our piece was that it be from a lesser known Shakespearean play. I ended up choosing a monologue by Rosalind in As You Like It. I have been able to decipher the true meaning of the monologue, but only when I read the preface to the monologue did I realize that Rosalind was currently pretending to be a man in the scene. So that should be interesting...