bit peckish?

hey guys,

i have found out that safeway sell plastic cutlery that look like metal so i’m goin to try and get those. much easier than metal. everyone look at the latest list i put together and tell me if you have, can get, make or know where i can get anything. please let me know asap. i dont write them for my health!

scotty, do you think we’ll need water with the nibbles/breadsticks? if so how many glasses and water jugs will we need? also if we have material napkins how are we going to fold them in the shape of the opera house?

kim, i need those table sizes asap. coz i have to find a place that sells the right size.

also, if anyone has a big box i can use for storing props in could you please bring it to school. thanks so much.

compe on peoples! we have exactly one month today!!!!!!!!!

yesterday we had a double theatre lesson. we started working in the right space.
guys, we are getting there but i think our main problem is timing. we are having trouble getting the lines out without losing the affect and our characters.

i have found out that safeway has plastic cutlery that looks like real ones so hopefully i can get them for the stage tables without too much trouble.

i wil be getting a new list out to everyone soon so could you please check if you have or could get/make anything.

thanks for your help. we’re getting there!

31 days till performance!!!!

hey guys! well done for your work over the holidays, those who came, we are really starting to get somewhere but i need some info from you guys.
kim - can you get me table sizes and numbers asap
nai - i need to know what you want the handbags to look like
can everyone look at the list i gave them and see if they have anything on it. i will be getting new ones out to you soon.

come on people. we have just over one month!

unfortunately not everyone made it to the rehearsal but of those who did, well done. we couldn’t finish off the play but we ran over a scene where we having trouble and it seems to be coming together.
well done nai! your character is turning out great! i love her drunk scenes.
goof, you’ve got to work on stephen. he acts like you on the outside but you’ve got to develop the sensitiveness and troubles of stephen, a couple of things in which he is different to you.
kim, i was wondering if you could get me numbers and sizes of tables and things needed. like tablecloths, cutley, glasses, etc. it would be a great help. thanx.
elise, i talked to my hairdresser and worked out some ways to hide the red in my hair.
to those who weren’t there yesterday, we are meeting same place, same time on friday the 13th (last day of holidays). see you all then.

i was talking to someone about dympie and she suggested that dympie sounded like she had a borderline personality disorder. so i researched BPD and this is some of what i found on a great website (www.bpdcentral.com).

BPDs:
- alternate between seeing people as either entirely good or evil
- alternate between seeing people as completely for or against them
- believe that others are are responsible for their actions or take too much responsibility for the actions of others
- seem unwilling to admit to a mistake or feel that everything that they do is a mistake
- feel abandoned at the slightest provocation
- have extreme moodiness that cycles very quickly
- feel emotions so intensly that it’s difficult to put others eeds ahead of their own
- feel distrustful and suspicious a great deal of the time
- change their expectations in such a way that the other person feels they can never do anything right
- verbally abuse others, criticizing and blaming them to the point where it feels brutal
- act in what seems like extreme or controlling ways to get their own needs met
and tons more.

sound like anyone?

thanks guys for your comments. Goof, its nice to know you like my character.

i have decided to make dympie a history piece by piece so that i can really get to understand her and get into her character.

Piece #1: Dympie’s childhood

Dympies childhood was lived in the shadow of the parents. they were old fashioned, ruling over her with an iron fist. they made every desision reguarding their daughter, from schools she attended, to the clothes she wore, to what she had in her sandwich. because of this she grew to asossiate power over others as a sign of strength. she was an only child so had no-one to share the burden with. her parents taught her how to look down on others, how to contradict them and make them and their ideas feel worthless, because that was how they treated her. she learnt by example. because of this she didn’t have many friends. she treated her friends the way her parents treated her and as such, chased many of them away. so when she finds a friend she holds on to them as tightly as possible to avoid losing them, not understanding that this is the very reason that they leave her.

*sorry. the last list didn’t work so well. here is the new one.

Monica: Bag, Money (notes), Valium packet, Pool ball, Tissues

Paula: Bag, Matches, Stockings (small, black), Cream

Dympie: Bag

Gordon: Watch, Money (notes, coins)

Stephen: Watch, Credit card

Set: 2 x ashtrays, cutlery, 2 x candle + holders, 2 x table no., Bar glasses, 2 x sugar pot, Carafe, 2 x flowers + vase, 2 x restaurant bill, bowls, Serviettes, olives, 2 x drink tray, pickles, Plates, breadsticks, Menus, big box, 2 x salt + pepper shakers, table clothes

sorry guys that i haven’t got many props yet as some of them have to wait until the set is finalised but if you have anything please let me know and bring it in. thanx

Monica Paula Dympie Gordon Stephen
Bag Bag Bag Watch Watch

Money (notes) Matches Money Credit card
(notes, coins)
Valium packet Stockings
(small, black)
Pool ball
Cream
Tissues

Set
2 x ashtrays cutlery

2 x candle + holders 2 x table no.

Bar glasses 2 x sugar pot

Carafe 2 x flowers + vase

2 x restaurant bill bowls

Serviettes olives

2 x drink tray pickles

Plates breadsticks

Menus big box

2 x salt + pepper shakers table clothes

we have done well so far with the preparation. we are working through the first act, blocking it out piece by piece. scott knows what he wants and has been working on the characters as well as the manipulation of the actors through the set. the various characters are being developed and are becoming real.

my congratulations to everyone or their progress so far. don’t stop!

in order to develop the character of Dympie, i have started to make up a history for her. she is self-conscious and controlling, needeing everything to be perfect.

after looking at the character of dympie, i believe that she is controling of those around her because when she was growing up, her parents ran the household with an iron fist, leaving her with no say in what happened. as an adult, she craves the power that she never had as a child, leading her to be controlling of everyone else and rigid in her ideas and desisions because she percieves changing her mind or agreeing with someone else to be a sign of weakness.

although she will copy other people’s ideas and pass them off as her own, dympie never admits it. she will copy paula’s make up and clothing but feels the need to hide it and does so by sneering at and insulting paula to cover her actions.