Performance Week

I shall just start with this past week and will try my best to recap my previous weeks that I have completely forgot to update about since I have been super busy.

So my internship with Singapore Lyric Opera started on the 9th May 2013 and I have not any off days ever since except for my 2 days MC because of my swollen eye. In all honesty, this internship is a whole new level of experience for me. It is so hectic that you don't really have time to stop and absorb the situation. You have to constantly be on the go every time you're at rehearsals. 

My job scope as an Assistant Stage Manager is to just ensure that I know every single details about the show. From the cast, the script, the props, the sets, the projections, the blockings, the costumes and many more other things. My job is ensure that I know the show like the back of my hand because we do not have a Stage Manager for the show, we only have a Deputy Stage Manager who comes in 2 weeks before the show just for the sake of calling all the cues. From rehearsals at SLO studio to TheatreWorks studio to Drama Centre, it has been crazy.

Rehearsals at SLO studio was really cramp and quite pathetic since we were constantly using mock up props and half the cast are usually missing. After that, rehearsals at TheatreWorks was much better since the studio was almost the same size as the actual stage. Most of the set pieces and the props were being brought it so the actors could get a feel of it. Even costumes were being prepared there since there was additional space. The only downside to it was that the food there are super expensive and I constantly brought along my sandwiches from home. And another downside was that I would be walking passed Clarke Quay at around 10 or 11pm looking like a zombie with my bag pack. It was even more embarrassing when I bumped into some of my NAFA schoolmates there. 

Then this past week was bump-in week at Drama Centre. The horror and the torture that the stage crew have been put through. At times, I really think that the show is curse. A lot of shits happened along the way that causes the crew to literally go berserk at times. There's me, Mus, Lila, Sheryl, Hakimmah, Alycia, Stanley, Ratna and Nathaniel, from Monday to Thursday, we came to work at 9am to do the props, staging, plotting and focusing. We will only got off from there around 1 or 2 in the morning. I was almost at the stage of crying every night because of being so tired. Physically tired that I couldn't even think properly most of the times. 

Thankfully, the first show went quite well. We could have improved on the scene changes but other than that, everything went quite smoothly. Syukur Alhamdulillah. On another note, it is really tiring to be an Assistant Stage Manager and be a calefare for the production. I was in-charge of stage right, on top of all the scene changes that I need to do with the crew, I still need to change my costume since I'm playing 4 characters and I have 3 lines as one of the characters. I was a military guard, a court guard, a concentration camp guard and a paramedic. This whole week, I have been skipping my lunch and dinner because I'm just too tired to eat. To top it off, I'm constantly sweating because I'm wearing 3 costumes at once and am still helping out with the scene changes. 

3 shows down, left 5 more shows to go. I can do this.

On another topic, my exam results came out yesterday. I got 5As and 2Cs. I got A for my Stage Management II, Concert Management, Dance Production, Organisational Communication Skills and SAS - Music. I got C for both my Contract Law and Business Finance. I find it rather weird that I got C for both my 5 credit modules. In all honesty, I thought that I did well for both the exam papers. I knew how to answer the questions and are really quite confident of my answers. I didn't even bother bullshitting about it at all. Overall, I'm super thankful that I'm still maintaining my GPA at 3.0 and above. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

Once, my third year starts, I really need to go all out. I really need to do super well so that I can get my scholarship and pursue my degree. InsyaAllah, I can do it. InsyaAllah, I will do it.

I'm missing my Dolls, my Twins and my Bestie.