operatic times

Good morning, chums,

Well, since we're now back at school, I'm not bad at posting because I'm lazy, it's because I'm busy. It's quite nice really, actually having quite a bit to do! Sometimes last term I did find myself wondering what exactly I should be doing, but now I've been pretty much reserved for full time drama/music department action (not actually my idea, but I like it. A lot). The first full week of term was taken up entirely (and I mean entirely) with the Junior school production. It was pretty distressing. Ok, so that's not fair. It was alright, sometimes funny. Occasionally some reasonable acting. Anyway, that was how I spent every day that week - on Lighting. God knows how they made those rehearsals last so... damn... long, but there you go.

That week was also the week of the Opera. We did Dido and Aeneas, in case I forgot to mention it. Sadly, it wasn't fully staged, because the opera company ran out of money. We did it like a concert, which was great. I will get hold of a recording of at least one of the nights soon so that Nana & Popa have a new CD to grind around and around their player; over and over again.

This week, though only really for yesterday and today, are the GCSE drama exams, so I'm in there again.

Once I get out of all this, it'll be back to the usual fare of lessons, which I'll have to go sort out soon since I haven't really had many to do so far this term!

Dom.