So as I was looking back over some of my April blogs, I noticed that in my early morning blog on Tuesday I said that I would give you news on my Terminal Task and 'As You Like It'. I kinda forgot to do that, so I will do it now.
My terminal task (when you have to write a song in half an hour for 15% of your music GCSE) went ok. The chords I was given to use were pretty good really, but I don't think I did it all that well. But I don't think it was a castastrophic fail, so I'm okay about it.
'As You Like It' at the RSC was AMAZING. It's only the third Shakespeare play I have seen ('Henry V' and 'Richard II' being the other two) but it was definitely my favourite. It's a play that I've never come across before, but I know class it as my third favourite Shakespeare play ('Macbeth' being my favourite, 'Much Ado About Nothing' my second favourite). I thought the production was simply fantastic, and all of the actors were just... wow.
So, I was a bit disappointed to see that it only got a mediocre review in The Times. I saw it on press night, so I saw exactly the same production as the critic saw, but they obviously weren't so impressed. I know that everyone has their own opinions, and there are some things that I hate that everyone else loves (like 'Twilight' and 'Forrest Gump') but I just found it interesting. I could agree with one or two points the critic made, but others I don't know how they got to. Ah well.
One of the best things about the night was that we got the tickets for free under the new 16-26 year old scheme, but we got possibly the BEST seats in the house! They were at the side, RIGHT at the front, so the stage was closer to me than my computer screen is. It was fantastic, because it felt like we were right in the action. I wasn't so sure about it when one of the shepherds actually skinned a rabbit on stage right in front of us (it looked like all the guts were going to fly into our faces), but when the guy pointed to me and said a line (something about a 12 month old lamb, I don't pretend to fully understand Shakespeare) it was pretty cool. Even if he was insulting me. I don't know. Plus they were FREE. Yay!
So there we go. I've just written the music to a new song, and am about to write the lyrics. I'm hoping to start recording this weekend for my return to YouTube, but we'll see how things go.
Charlotte's Internet Challenge Day 6
Song of the Day- 'Takk...' -The entire album by Sigur Ros- cos I just bought it and LOVE it :)
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