Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Theatre work in Melbourne: Month of Sundays

I read an audition on Star Now about the Australian Centre of Performing Arts (ACOPA)'s Month of Sundays. It's where actors get together and put up plays, gigs, cabarets, songs etc every Sunday of the month. I decided to audition for it.

I was then introduced to other actors who were part of the July Month of Sundays: Heather, Nick, Melanie, Cait, Jacqui, Sarina and our lovely director Maggie. We put together a few sketches in a segment called Pigeonholed. We rehearsed for about one month, every Tuesdays and Sundays. It was a lot of fun and a lot of nerve-wrecking madness! Nevertheless we managed to pull it off and performed to quite a full house every Sunday!

Thanks so much to the cast and crew for making this happen. My first time performing in Australia and you guys made it very memorable!











Theatre work in Melbourne: King of Bangor

Since I was working as a stage manager for Student Body, Dione asked if I was interested in designing set for her next play, King of Bangor. I was very excited and squealed out a big fat YES! Mind you, I've never designed a set before. It's a good thing that the set was minimal (also due to the low budget). So I just played around with whatever I was offered.

The play was a one act play and a theatrical exploration into the creative mind of Stephen King, a world renowned novelist.

It was a fun experience. I did it all by myself, painted and tried to make the set look old and vintage. It was a pretty good first experience of trying to put the set together!

Click here to read about the King of Bangor!