Today I woke up still having a cold and I cough, I have a nice little headache and fever. It’s just awesome! I had to go home early from school and I had to rearrange a casting I was called to do. Good thing I could change it to tomorrow, I would have been dead otherwise..

It’s a hectic but really fun week coming together.

Wednesday: Casting for a commercial and monologue performance
Thursday: Casting for a humor show, watching a theater play performed by some of the people at my school, my cousin comes to Stockholm and will stay all weekend
Friday-Sunday: Hanging with my cousin, doing random things!

I’m now in Helsinki with mom <3 Audition tomorrow..

Don’t hate me, ok? but I do dislike summer in so many ways. It’s descusting… Blää!

I had an audition this last Friday and I’ll perform in church on Wednesday :) I feel quite good about it now actually. I’m like the most self-critic person there is and now, finally, I’ve started recording my voice when I’m singing and it has imoroved so much since I started studying! Thanks M!

On Thursday I will fly to Finland with my mom, she will be there when I’m auditioning for a great acting school over there.

Wish me luck! Love, Jess

So I am auditioning for Helsingfors theatre school two weeks from now and I have both my texts (that I will audition with) set. I am going to do one of the texts that I auditioned with to this school that I’m attending now and one poem that I will perform in church 2 days before my audition in Finland. Stoked.

But now, it’s Friday, I will call my friend Friday aka FvS soon and I will see if I will be able to grab a coffee with her before I go to school. It’s been forever since I met her so if we met up I’ll be stoked. Tomorrow is the celebration of spring really being here (Swedish people tend to have to have something to celebrate so we can drink like crazy and wake up the day after saying; Well it was Valborg so it is okay).

Much love,
You one and only, Jess the Actress

Tags: Acting, audition, celebrate, church, finland, sweden, theater school, valborg

A Shakespeare sonnet, the harmony of a play. It’s magical how so few words can make you feel and see.

120

That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for the sorrow which I then did feel
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.
For if you were by my unkindness shaken,
As I by yours, y’have passed a hell of time,
And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken
To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.
O that our night of woe might have rememb’red
My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,
And soon to you, as you to me then, tend’red
The humble salve which wounded bosoms fits!
But that your trespass now becomes a fee;
Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.

So we are now working with Shakespeare in school, which is classic. Which acting school does not? We have a course now that is called Monologue technique, which until now have been based on cold reading and being where you are in your text. When you say something, do you say it because your emotion drives you to it or do you say something and act from what you say? I can’t really explain it better than the master himself; so enjoy!

Tags: 120, Acting, classic, cold reading, john barton, playing shakespeare, sonnet

Dear Diary: We had Corporeal mime today, I sat on the side because of my back. Last time we had Corporeal mime we did isolations, movement of different body parts, today we did that, rotations and elevations.

Picture from here

Dear diary: We had our first class in Dramaturgy today, with Eva Brise, she told us to keep diaries on what we do at Calle Flygare Acting school. Which I kind of do, but not really. So from now on I will keep a diary, here on my blog on what we do in class. Creating a new Category – Diary @ Calle Flygare, under Acting – Acting school.

We talked a lot about things to think about and how to start writing.

To think about: Characters, Relations and Reaction.

♥ Characters – We have to have different characters, with different goals to make a story interesting. If you have two characters, both with the same feelings you will probably have a hard time moving the story forward. You will get to characters who agree and it’s not “interesting enough”.

♥ Reactions - How do the “other” character react on what the character says.

♥ Relations – Simple, without relations you will never ever have any dialogs, which is quite important. So relations between the characters you create; not said that they have to love each other.

Tags: Acting, acting school, blog, characters, dear diary, reactions, relations

An illusion, something beyond the mystery face.
A creation, something ahead of you.
Unstoppable, something resemblant to a train with no breaks.

Stay away from me, so that I can stay away from pain.

The old man said – “pain is just weakness leaving your body“.
So she tried, she tried so hard to live with it.
But then, how much pain can one little soul handle.
Pain = weakness = failure

Failure leaves you - prevented

Not said that the girl will be stopped, no oh no,
the girl will stand up strong and fight the pain away.
Nothing will or can take this dream away.
Everything has been taken away from this girl, everything but this.

She will never let this one go.

Work, shopping, school, home is my plan for today. I have an errand on Söder, after that I will try getting myself to MQ for some shopping, since I got gift cards there on my birthday, but only if time is available. We have Dramaturgy today in school, we had to read a script until today and I can tell you all that it’s one of the most wierd scripts I have ever read..

We had our first corporeal mime class today. It was fun. Though I will have some soreness in my body tomorrow it will be fun having another class, in corporeal mime. Hard work will pay off.

Pictures from here

Tags: Acting, Acting school, calle flygare, corporeal mime, dance, theater

I am going to school soon, even if I don’t feel 100 percent I have to go. We are doing some sort of presentation of the things we have done during this year with this teacher so I think it’s important for me to go. But I won’t be active in class. Which kind of sucks, I hate sitting on the side just watching.