Montclair State University

Yesterday I went to Montclair State for their theater arts day. It was a really long day filled with information about the school and the audition process and all that good stuff. The best part of the day was in the afternoon when we got to watch their production of the play, Arcadia. It was phenomenal! The play itself was a little tough to get through. I feel like if I had read the play before hand I would have understood it a lot more, but the director gave a speech before the play started explaining the basic plot and she did warn us that we would miss a lot of plot details if this was our first experience with the play. But the acting was outstanding! Every single actor on that stage was either very good or ready for a Broadway career. The girl who played Thomasina and the boy who played her tutor had such great chemistry. The scenes they had together moved and flowed so nicely it was almost poetic. The director also played around with apples a lot. The characters were constantly eating apples throughout the play and I think that helped a lot with the acting, which was so simplistic but also complex and filled with subtext. It was quite obvious that even if we, the audience didn't understand some of the math or science references, the actors knew exactly what they were talking about. The director said that auditions were held last spring, and they cast the show in May. The actors had all summer to read the play and research all the math, the science, and historical references. They became experts on these topics and what life would be like in 1809 for a family like the one in the play.

And one more thing.. I got a very special e-mail last night from Marymount Manhatten College! I was accepted =) (on an accademic basis) It was my first letter, and it felt really great to have that first experience be an exciting one. That news put me in a good mood that will last the rest of the weekend.