This morning I managed to finish memorising my prose piece for the Comps; a wickedly funny little section from 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. A book which you should never read if you think you're sane, but which you'll love if you've accepted that sanity is not really that important after all. This particular bit is, in my opinion, the best part in the whole thing. Arthur Dent is lying in front of bulldozers ('making occasional demands to see his lawyer, his mother, or a good book') in an attempt to stop his house being destroyed to make way for a bypass. Meanwhile, the Earth itself about to be obliterated to make way for a slightly larger bypass . . .
Another piece I was working on was my Rosencrantz monologue from Stoppards famous play. I've been having a lot of fun with this, though it's challenged me no end. One of the toughest aspects for me, interestingly, is coming to grips with the characters physicality. Rosencrantz and I are extremely dissimilar. While I tend to be contained, laconic and a bit stiff, Rosencrantz is a bouncing ball of energy who wears his psychiatric disturbances on his sleeve and thinks best while talking out loud. So adapting has taken a bit of work. Some of the models that I borrow elements from to keep him different are Jim Carreys 'Count Olaf' and Johnny Depps 'Jack Sparrow'. He should be a very interesting fellow, in the end.
Oh, and just one other thing - I had to share this gem of a quote from Lemony Snickets 'The Wide Window' (yes, I'm on the fourth book now): "If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats." So true.
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