The Bachelor

I have finished my bachelor!

I can't believe how fast these 3 years have gone by. It has been crazy.
I will leave Friday, or the 30th with all the stuff I have slowly accumulated throughout these three years and it is a little bit sad. I also am wondering how in the nine hells I will actually manage to get it all back, but that is a problem not meant to be internetized.
(That is now a word. You're welcome Scrabble people. (If you need it in a sentence, here goes: "My God, Molly! You're so internetized!" You're welcome. (Yeah.. My ego is pretty inflated. I enjoy the buoyancy that a great big ego provides. I guess that's what being internetized does to you.)))
For our dissertation we could choose to do an independent performance, solo, or make a company with other actors and create a piece that way. Or you could join the Unknown Pleasures project which we are the 7th year in the row to do. That is pretty cool I think.
I chose to be a part of Unknown Pleasures because I thought working with an external practitioner would be very useful in the sense that I can see how other directors work in a not-as-such-academic environment (even though it was in one... But pish posh.).
Our Director, Gerald Tyler, was amazing. I loved working with him.
He did have a very different way of working, which I thought was... Well... Different... But it was an interesting experience. And I'd like to hope that he found us interesting to work with too.
The ignorants (whom were clones, shielded from "reality" or the outside.) were meant to be slightly Asperger-like in behaviour, moving together or in waves. Doing that took a long time. It could be a little tedious, but it had to be done. I think the end-result was pretty cool. Even though I didn't see it all from the audience's perspective, I did see bits from it and they looked really good. Everyone did so well.

I am very proud to have done this work with all of these amazing people and I think we all did a great job with the piece. Jamie, one of the Technical Theatre students made a time-lapse of the three performances we did as well as the get-out, which was really neat.

We even made it into the South Wales Evening Post! Which is awesome, I think!
I need to show off, of course... Here it is!
Or if that has been taken down then I've got screenshots right here. It's not that I am narcissistic, (that's probably just, hmmm... 90% of it? Joking... Joking...) I'm just really proud of both myself and just all of us, having helped create this world that Gerald made up.

This is another post. A different one. We had a photographer come in and take pictures one day. So it's a little awkward and stubby. I won't post the pictures here, even though I want to, there's just so many people to ask for permission if I do.. X)




My parents, Rebekka and grandma (hereby known as Farmor) came down to see it, which was really cool. I enjoyed having them over, albeit a short time. They seemed to really like Swansea, so when I was working and rehearsing, they were looking around, shopping (Rebekka went a little nuts. Not gonna lie.) and uncovering little restaurant-gems. We went to Mumbles for a little nose-around as well and went to a pebble beach. Farmor, Rebekka and I sat down and enjoyed an amazing mint icecream and lazed in the sun whilst mum and dad went exploring on a little hiking trail. I believe it was Langland Bay we found, and it was gorgeous there.
We went down the steps and looked for nice looking pebbles for a while (as you do), whilst waiting for The Parents and then we plodded along towards a coffee shop we could rest our weary feet in. We went into a little café called Mumbles and enjoyed lovely cup of coffee before we went back into town and Rebekka went ballistic with shopping in Primark.
Oh lawdy lawd. There is a lot... And then there is a LOT.
She was in the latter category.

Ah. Anyway, these 3 years of university has definitely been an adventure, and I hope I have made friends for life here.
I can't wait for the reunion! However, for now, Norway will have to be the next adventure.
Thanks for these past years, I will miss our little performing arts family!