All Over the Place

As you may have already realized, AP and IB testing has left many of us in and out of class all over the place. I haven't had the opportunity to come back to my theatre class until today since Monday. While I've been gone, the class had traded the rest of the unperformed monologues and I received Lucy's work. Her character, as I remember from her monologue, came from a Spanish origin and was a businesswoman of a sort. Considering that this was her character's present, I anticipated that her character, Espera, came from quite a privileged past. Just the opposite when I read over her monologue. Espera, it turns out, tells a rags to riches story as she extols her love for her father despite their impoverished lives (just the opposite of Martha). The future monologue that Lucy had written didn't contain much substance or length so I  have opted to perform her past monologue. During today's class we went over rituals that we were instructed to research. After each ritual we were each asked of what ideas came into our minds if these were to be veritable stimuli. Personally, I didn't find many of the rituals to be inspiring save one about funerary rites. Ironically, I could only think of movie references. Afterwards, we continued revising our research investigation questions. Mine were all considered viable by our teacher, and now we have set a date to once again narrow our search.