Saturday, March 12, 2005

We're moving workshops

So I am currently in a class at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which was reconstructed in 1997. Yesterday, we did a little bit 'o acting on the stage--Act 1, scene 7 of Macbeth. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition with o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." I just acted that out as I typed it, because I'm good like that. As I did my part, people who were taking tours of the place were taking pictures of me, but I don't care, because whatever; it's no big thing. To be expected even.

The week prior, our instructor told us that next week, to quote, "We're moving workshops." We didn't quite understand what that meant, so on our walk from St. Paul's Cathedral to the Globe, we debated this sentence. Was it some sort of metaphysical, philosophical statement? Like it's a response to the question, "Who are we?" We're moving workshops, not just single actors. Or maybe he meant he was going to get some physical labor out of us: We're moving workshops. Bring your heavy lifting belts. Or maybe he was answering our question as to what we'd be doing the following week, and that minor earthquake that struck as he was answering caused him to say, "We're moving" and then he regained compusure so as to answer the question, "workshops." I guess we'll never know.

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