three things

vica dragged me to a critics' night of an adaptation of a henrik ibsen play, the master builder.
it was pretty interesting, to say the least.

but what i really liked about going was having to hear from vica three things she learned from being a theater arts major.

truth
creativity
service
three things that actors ought to work on every time.

truth, i remember her saying, is about internalization. grounding your character on reality, taking root, i guess. i think.

creativity, meanwhile, is about spicing it all up. reality is everywhere so why bother listening to your story if it's not the least bit interesting. vica shares how it's about the highs and lows of your character and using them to nuance your storytelling.

service is about the technicalities. whether you'll be heard or seen or understood, whether the story you want told is actually coming through, being told.


i say, what a wonderful summary of things one ought to do each time.
managed to eat three only-in-cebu food before that show

anita's mongo bread (a favorite since kindergarten)
starbucks choco-filled donuts (found nowhere else in the country) with manila-bound nika
harbour dimsum steamed rice (rice with pork and peas and sauce and stuff)

almost 4am but i have to stay up.
i'm in-charge of nanay's medication today so everyone else can rest in time for her check-up tomorrow. she had a nasty fall and she bruised her eye and that needed surgery.
good thing mama and kit were calm. but we just laugh about it now.

to stay awake, i've managed to enjoy watching three movies

dan in real life (regular steve carell movie only better, much much better)
all that jazz (bob fosse's semi-autobiographical movie)
star wars revenge of the sith (oh yeah, wikipedia calls it an epic space opera)

three days left for sim city.