My main tool for procrastination currently is the wonderful website Stumble Upon, on which one has the opportunity to trawl through a variety of random websites, some engaging, others useful, and a few just plain stupid. I recommend you take some time to check it out, you can discover some pretty interesting stuff (plus it's customized to suit one's personal interest): http://www.stumbleupon.com/
The premier of He Who Gets Slapped is rapidly advancing. Sunday 18th is our first performance, and we continue nightly till Tuesday 20th. I'm wearing the make-up as I write, and, as I've touched on before, it looks as though a rainbow has vomited on my face. Even so spirits are high for me and in the entire cast, and final preparations are being carried out to polish it off. Here's a snap of me and partner-in-crime Jack Heaton in our wonderful dung's:
Some bad news has arisen from the depths of LICA (Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts) this week, which has startled and angered fellow course-mates and I. The university, in order to receive more funding, intends to merge all LICA degree courses (theatre, art, film, music, etc) into a simpler system as of the next academic year. This means a few things will change:
- The highlight being when we graduate we will not receive a BA honours in theatre studies, but a much less impressive "LICA degree", exclusive to Lancaster. Job opportunities plummet.
- Non-theatre students will be allowed to enrol on to theatre modules, and vice versa. Due to limited spaces in each module, this potentially means a student will be forced to take a module that is not in any way related to their major degree; for example, if I was to apply to study dance theatre (heaven forbid) and it was full, I might be ushered into The History of Fine Art, a module that, while maintains a quite glamorous history and aesthetic, does not personally appeal to this particular individual.
- The last major change would be the disappearance of a few quite attractive modules; TV drama is to be cut, contemporary dance theatre would be made a half module and a completely theoretical module (Ludicrous!), and also some other mental adjustments.
Obviously theatre students and hopefully students under other LICA departments are kicking up a fuss. We're meeting with the LICA convenor next Wednesday (the last week of term 2) to discuss the changes and press our dissatisfaction. Theatre students have also discussed in an emergency meeting on Tuesday that we are willing to take this to the highest level of the university hierarchy and, if needs be, go even further.
I digress, apologies, as you can tell this has hit hard and is worrying a great deal of students. In other news, there are plans for a certain Matthew Stephens to stay with me this Saturday, which should manifest a lovely day or two. Not sure what I'm going to do with him; I'm sure he can entertain himself to an extent, unfortunately the work pile has been built rather high for the coming weekend. Hopefully when faithful bro Tom hears of our larks and hilarious anecdotes he will not be too overcome with envy.
Now, unfortunately, I must proceed with presentation plans and other such menial tasks. I hope everyone is well, I send out my love.
Ollie
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