Winding Up Classes at BADA

The last few weeks of classes at BADA went by so quickly! We went to go see The Man of Mode at RADA with our High Comedy teacher, Annabel, which was fantastic. Annabel cooked me a simple dinner before the show, so I got to pick her brain quite a bit about her career in theatre and film.

That weekend Hilary and I went to the BFI London Film Festival and saw a film called Kicks. It was a new British film, all filmed in Liverpool. The movie was about two girls who are obsessed with a football player (our soccer), to the extent that they kidnap him one night. What starts out as harmless fun turns into a life-threatening and emotional roller-coaster. We ended up sitting next to the lead male actor in the theatre, which was really cool (he wasn't quite as cute in real life). Also, the director and producers came out at the end and answered any questions from the audience. I wanted to ask how the director got the idea for some of the images in the film, but there wasn't enough time.

We also saw End Game by Samuel Beckett, which I am still processing and will probably need a few more years to make sense of.

The end of Week 8 at BADA was bustling with audition preparation. For my audition, I did the Romeo and Juliet scene with Juliet and the nurse. Cori was my scene partner. I think we worked well together because we are both hard workers and are very organized people. My audition went well, and then the last night before break we got our casts lists!

I am cast in Widows, by Ariel Dorfman. My director is Jacob Murray, who I am so excited to work with. He has such a great vision for this play, and seems enthusiastic about working with us BADA students. After the meeting, everyone went home and packed furiously, because the next day I was headed off to...Athens, Greece!