20 feb 2010
Another new day . This day started with great confusion which went on till the next day. I have always been extremely particular with regards to time. Be it at work or at home. I value time both mine as well as others.
My session to chilsag started with this confusion ( got a mail saying that the rehearsals were on both Saturday and Sunday though the Sunday timing was not mentioned. I was getting late for the rehearsals and so hurried especially because i had to travel nearly 20 kms to get to rehearsals.
I reached the place right on the dot. Only to find there were no rehearsals happening. Some other group was practicing. I called up the director and got to know that there had been some miscommunication in the mail that was sent.
Well again i realised the importance of communication today. Moreover the importance of right communication. though this freaked me out a bit this didn’t put off my passion to do the play.
I went home and got the meetings rescheduled for Saturday evening. And wrapped up loads of work for Saturday itself.
Next day the rehearsals were at 9.30. so i got ready at around 8am and started a fresh... at around 9.15 i was just reaching the venue feeling gud to be before time as usual. I got a call saying that we meet at 10.30am.
Honestly i wanted to return back. Nevertheless i didn’t do that i didn’t want anything, any situation to rule my decision to do theatre. Not even myself. I went ahead got relaxed and eased my memory before i get back to do my rehearsals.
Gud for us sachin arrived at 10 am sharp we then rehearsed and it was no looking back.
We were given scripts , we in sense me and sangeetha strangely we were the only two of us at the rehearsals ..i didn’t get the point why others were not at the rehearsals. It actually didn’t matter because we got straight to our rehearsals and i wasn’t wasting my time.
i realised many things today during our rehearsals. I needed to get connected with the character before i got into my dialogues and acting stuff. But the character was still not making an impact on me. Now when analysed i realised that its important for me to first understand what the character is originally like in sense what type of person is he ( eg active,lazy, clean, messy,slow, fast his mannerisms, his gestures, his attitude in life in general, his perception of his would be wife ( madhumati ) etc etc..
i needed to discover kailashnath soon .
It was important for me to establish this before i got into his skin. How i do it is is another aspect. May be i need to follow my instincts for this. But i realised the importance of getting the details of this character
After lunch we got back and the others joined in there were many people many were new for me. This is the first time we were as a whole group .we did many exercises many of which i knew the purpose of the exercises.
It was more of group building, trust and improvisation skills that we were sharpening.
Sachin was actually building the skeleton of all the scenes and we just had to give in our best. We were actually now divided into groom’s family and bride’s family members. The feel of marriage and festivity just plunged into the room from nowhere the sessions got loads of energy and the music that was used was totally “ DRAMEBAAZ” in local language and i loved it especially the feel of family reunion with background song of “kyon ke saans be kabhi bahu thi” freak this was the last thing that i would have expected. But is soon realised how this music had actually brought together many families in together jus to watch this soap opera. This also reminded me of a TED TALK series which recently happened at mysore. Here Sashi Taroor speaks of india being so popular because of its pluralist secular image and here he speaks of this soap opera “ kyon ki “ being so were famous in AFGHANISTAN that people actually rescheduled wedding reception timings based on this serial timings which was translated and telecasted in their nation.
Now i know the reason behind its popularity. J
Well we ended this session positively and i needed to work harder. I also needed to get more information about "kudiyattam" it started getting more and more interesting as i had previously known very little about this art from which is part of our rich cultural heritage. I personally want to increase my knowledge by adding information about this into my memory.
I’m looking forward to finish this play with loads and loads of experience. in fact this experience of writing this journal in itself is an experience.
Another new day . This day started with great confusion which went on till the next day. I have always been extremely particular with regards to time. Be it at work or at home. I value time both mine as well as others.
My session to chilsag started with this confusion ( got a mail saying that the rehearsals were on both Saturday and Sunday though the Sunday timing was not mentioned. I was getting late for the rehearsals and so hurried especially because i had to travel nearly 20 kms to get to rehearsals.
I reached the place right on the dot. Only to find there were no rehearsals happening. Some other group was practicing. I called up the director and got to know that there had been some miscommunication in the mail that was sent.
Well again i realised the importance of communication today. Moreover the importance of right communication. though this freaked me out a bit this didn’t put off my passion to do the play.
I went home and got the meetings rescheduled for Saturday evening. And wrapped up loads of work for Saturday itself.
Next day the rehearsals were at 9.30. so i got ready at around 8am and started a fresh... at around 9.15 i was just reaching the venue feeling gud to be before time as usual. I got a call saying that we meet at 10.30am.
Honestly i wanted to return back. Nevertheless i didn’t do that i didn’t want anything, any situation to rule my decision to do theatre. Not even myself. I went ahead got relaxed and eased my memory before i get back to do my rehearsals.
Gud for us sachin arrived at 10 am sharp we then rehearsed and it was no looking back.
We were given scripts , we in sense me and sangeetha strangely we were the only two of us at the rehearsals ..i didn’t get the point why others were not at the rehearsals. It actually didn’t matter because we got straight to our rehearsals and i wasn’t wasting my time.
i realised many things today during our rehearsals. I needed to get connected with the character before i got into my dialogues and acting stuff. But the character was still not making an impact on me. Now when analysed i realised that its important for me to first understand what the character is originally like in sense what type of person is he ( eg active,lazy, clean, messy,slow, fast his mannerisms, his gestures, his attitude in life in general, his perception of his would be wife ( madhumati ) etc etc..
i needed to discover kailashnath soon .
It was important for me to establish this before i got into his skin. How i do it is is another aspect. May be i need to follow my instincts for this. But i realised the importance of getting the details of this character
After lunch we got back and the others joined in there were many people many were new for me. This is the first time we were as a whole group .we did many exercises many of which i knew the purpose of the exercises.
It was more of group building, trust and improvisation skills that we were sharpening.
Sachin was actually building the skeleton of all the scenes and we just had to give in our best. We were actually now divided into groom’s family and bride’s family members. The feel of marriage and festivity just plunged into the room from nowhere the sessions got loads of energy and the music that was used was totally “ DRAMEBAAZ” in local language and i loved it especially the feel of family reunion with background song of “kyon ke saans be kabhi bahu thi” freak this was the last thing that i would have expected. But is soon realised how this music had actually brought together many families in together jus to watch this soap opera. This also reminded me of a TED TALK series which recently happened at mysore. Here Sashi Taroor speaks of india being so popular because of its pluralist secular image and here he speaks of this soap opera “ kyon ki “ being so were famous in AFGHANISTAN that people actually rescheduled wedding reception timings based on this serial timings which was translated and telecasted in their nation.
Now i know the reason behind its popularity. J
Well we ended this session positively and i needed to work harder. I also needed to get more information about "kudiyattam" it started getting more and more interesting as i had previously known very little about this art from which is part of our rich cultural heritage. I personally want to increase my knowledge by adding information about this into my memory.
I’m looking forward to finish this play with loads and loads of experience. in fact this experience of writing this journal in itself is an experience.
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