Lewis Center Living: Day One

As you might remember from yesterday's post, AMS 332/THR 331 is living in the Lewis Center for the Arts this weekend as part of a communal living experiment for our final class project.  It's 24 hours in, and living in 185 Nassau just keeps getting better and better.  So, without further ado, the Top Five Best Moments of the Weekend thus far:

1. Stargazing from the Lewis Center roof at 2AM--with only minor vertigo.
2. Eating healthy, non-dining hall food--with the Department of Theater picking up the tab.
3. Watching the townies coming to and from Communiversity--and especially seeing toddlers take each other out with balloon swords ("We do not fight with our light sabers on the sidewalk, young man!").
4. Supporting each other as a class 24/7, which translated into driving Sara Shaw '10 to her TFA Spanish proficiency exam, traveling en masse to see my Mahler 6 concert with the PUO, and supporting Josh Lavine '10 in his final DiSiac show.
5. Combining intense, round-the-clock workshops and rehearsals with relaxing bonding time.  In order for The Serpent: A Ceremony to work, we need to get painfully close to the events we're depicting, especially the King and Kennedy assassinations, which has been pretty harrowing.  For one of our most difficult scenes, we're creating a series of disjointed, stop-motion images of the Kennedy shooting in the style of the infamous Zapruder film. Four of us are taking on the roles of JFK, Jackie, and Governor and Mrs. Connally, and the rest have the equally difficult task of portraying lookers-on at the motorcade.  We need to trust each other completely and be utterly un-self-conscious in order to pull it off.  We're on our way: one day to go!