I’m horribly transparent…

it’s been so long! it’s not right, it’s just not right. time is just flying. i called my parents yesterday and didn’t even realize it had been a week since i called them last. a week! i rarely go a day without calling them. it was very disconcerting.

in true actor-weblog fashion, i guess i’ll update you on the theatre i’ve seen.

most recently? the seagull by checkov. i don’t know if i have words to illustrate this one. impeccable performances. not actors, just people. they weren’t actors, they were characters that were real people. totally stimulating. i couldn’t tear my eyes away. not for a moment. that’s the kind of work i want to be a part of one day. if there ever was a goal or “end result” that would be it. total transformation. i was a part of new and different world for two hours and forty five minutes.

moon for the misbegotten by o’neill starring kevin spacey. yes, kevin spacey. it was very surreal to see him in real life. a working actor on the stage. there’s this other worldly feel that i get when watching him in a movie, he’s not a real person. but here, at the old vic theatre, was kevin spacey, in the flesh. the play was mediocre. not o’neill’s best written play. i love eugene o’neill but not a huge fan of moon. but interesting to watch anyway, as you can imagine.

i had a dreadful tour of the royal theatre drury lane (the oldest continual working theatre in the world [300 years]). the tour guides must have been hired from disney world (and they brought their costumes). we were treated like ten year olds. but the theatre was beautiful and nice to see regardless.

i’m still working on hamlet in advanced shakespeare scene study. with natalie. “get thee to a nunnery”. it’s going really well, i’m thoroughly enjoying working it and tearing it open. i think hamlet is officially my dream role (cliche i know, but when are dreams not?) either that or now constantine in the seagull. I’m doing sonnet work in voice with our linklater professor and incredibly fun clown work in movement class.

everything’s starting to calm down here. i’m feeling as though i really live in london now. which is a comforting and relaxing thought. i don’t feel the need to be out every minute and doing SOMETHING at all times. which is giving a much-needed break to my pocket book.

i bought a complete works of chekhov. i’m currently infatuated, can you tell? i plan on reading all of them in my free time. i think i might be moving into a new era. the era where michael loves chekhov more than shakespeare. ::gasp:: i know, what on earth am i thinking? but as i read more, the era moves nearer.

i miss a lot of people back home. mostly, my family. my friends. namely, brittany, mary, brendan, mitch, colin… just to name a few. people i used to talk to all the time; i shared anything and sometimes everything with them and now i have so little time to spend with them. i miss you. yes, you. i’m thinking about you. i hope you know that.

—-m