Sitting-in at another workshop class.

As I had promised, I visited Robbie's class in Rep this evening. 

Hahaha, by the time I arrived, I suddenly forgot that people who sit in are required to participate as well. I mean, I joined the warm-ups for kicks, but when I isolated myself when they were done, Caisa was gesturing at me to join the circle of workshoppers. Hahaha, I looked at her blankly and went over to her instead. That's when she reminded me that sit-ins have to join the workshop exercises, so I finally joined the circle and participated in each of the activities.

Observation #1: Before I knock on other people, I should start with myself. I gotta learn to cut others some slack. This is a basic acting class. I guess I came to the venue feeling sort of cynical, even though I have some friends in the crowd. Plus I'm only a visitor, so I don't really have the right to act all bossy even though some don't have a clue as to what to really do.

Observation #2: I suddenly felt pretty old, considering this is an adults class. We had to do this game of charades, and some of the categories were TV shows and pop songs. Holy kamote, in the former category, when Ed had suggested the game show called 1 Million Dollar Chance of a Lifetime, almost everyone's eyebrows shot up. They didn't know what show was that. Sure, I understand that they didn't know Mork and Mindy (Robin Williams, hello!), which was what I had suggested, but I didn't realize that there are hardly any people who still grew up in the 80s in this group, hahaha. Even when our category were pop songs, once again, hardly anyone knew "Rosanna" by Toto. I mean, c'mon guys, it's TOTO! HAHAHAHA! (Yes, I'm a fan, ahehe.)

Observation #3: A lot are still pretty naive. First, when we broke into groups for a final activity on gibberish, we were told to listen to each other during the scenes we had to do because some people keep talking over other people's lines. But there are some people who still won't practice that advice when we discussed it within the groups. It's common sense, really, to listen.

Observation #4: If someone does know me and a couple of my other friends, he or she would at least be gracious enough to come up to me, say hi and introduce himself/herself, right? Hahaha. At least that way, I could finally figure out who that mystery that's been haunting Tin and me, ahehe. I mean, I don't really know all the people from the previous workshop class, but I was pretty flattered that some people, like Bianca, warmly greeted me even though I barely knew them then.

But hey, at least I had fun. I sure hope that the next time I'd sit in (even though they're more likely to be working on rehearsals for their showcase) they'd do improv, haha. Now that's my favorite.

For some reason, I suddenly remembered the latter part of Sir Dennis' Philippine Theater History lecture last Saturday. He had mentioned Rep as one of the prominent companies during the 60s, and had also mentioned each company's purpose. Very interesting info, hahaha.

Now it's back to my own regular routine.