Mission Audition

I had two auditions today, one for a lighthearted Halloween themed spoof, and another for an obscure Strindberg play. I did a different obscure Strindberg play nearly 11 years ago, and my husband has begged me to never do another one again. If you know anything about Strindberg you know that lighthearted and cheerful do NOT describe his work. The play that I did was a Christmas play, yet it involved a child-stealing gnome. And not in a funny way. Apparently at lunch today my husband prayed that at the audition I would slip and fall, breaking something important to the theatre and perhaps even harming the director, thus ensuring I would not be cast.

Nice to know I have your enthusiastic support, honey.

Neither of these shows are scripts I'm dying to work on, yet they are both at theatres whose productions I've enjoyed recently and would like to work with. I think both auditions went fairly well, but you just never know.

So we're back to the waiting game. Fun, fun.

Also, it occurs to me that I need to remind you about our upcoming Monday Mission: write a post in the form of a class syllabus. And while that sounded like a fun idea when I posited it, I realized that I'm not sure I remember what a syllabus really looks like. Perhaps you are in the same boat. So, I did a bit of poking around online and found this definition of Syllabus on Wikipedia,this example, which seems way more detailed than any syllabus I recall receiving at the prestigious university I attended, and a page on designing a learning-centered syllabus. You most certainly don't need to go so in depth, and now that I've done your homework for you, feel free to completely ignore it and have fun! Which is really the goal of the missions, anyhow.