Down the Stairs, originally uploaded by Ian Sweeney.
This is happy. Full of sunshine, and happy. I love these people, and want to see them soon (almost as much as I want to see my mum).
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Wellbeing Hill (aka Narnia), originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
I found these photos on my camera all the way back in December.
My photo-taking lifestyle ceased to exist around the same time Nathan bought his swanky-new camera.
This shouldn’t continue.
This reminds me that I love snow. It will snow this weekend apparently.
That is all…
The passage of time…, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
when you haven’t had more than 48 hours off in 4 months, suddenly, 72 feels like an eternity
you can spend the first 3 in nervous anticipation, before being violently reunited with your lover, causing you to remember all the reasons that hold you together
you can pack up your family home of 12 years while seeing your daddy through a life threatening operation, and finally feel secure in the fact that he will see another Christmas
you can regretfully spend 5 of those precious hours of freedom in a salon, having the only available shade of red thrown through your hair, days before flying towards Paris, and what will possibly one of the most precious weeks of your life
you can sleep for 24 of them, after a day and a night of utter madness
you can wait 2 hours for 1.5 minutes of pure adrenaline, three times over
you can find yourself at the other end of time, forgetting what to do, and why you should be doing it
All I Want For Christmas Is You, originally uploaded by Nathan Stoneham.
You don’t get many opportunities to sing Christmas carols (including interpretive dance/contact impro break) for significantly important people.
Needless to say, I ate my fill of fully expensive food, real orange juice and post-performance dessert course (including fruit flan and/or mudcake).
From such a meeting, we can make the following general assumptions on ethnic groups by virtue of singular cases in point:
Canadians: Generally unattractive, will stake their claim on various musical identities, cultural icons and language groups within 3 minutes of first meeting. Will mock your country of origin (Australia in this case), and will mention their status as a G8 country twice.
Belorussians: Have terribly large eyebrows. Will fall in love with your female counterpart on fist sight. Will pop up unexpectedly around Itaewon as you search for a taxi.
Irish: Females; mild mannered, polite and gracious. Males; bordering on senility.
Americans: Obnoxious, culturally insensitive and displays the express desire to converse solely upon the topic of the superiority of US Beef, and current issues regarding the Korean importation of same. Will openly offend your Korean colleagues.
Kuwaiti: Speaks in monotone. Offers three or four well rehearsed sentences including: “Hello, I am Kuwait”, “You are all good (gestures to the generic facial regions)”.
Germans: Friendly, shows avid interest in the performing arts.
Needless to say, and entertaining night was had by all.
*NOTE: I am fully aware that the following cannot actually be taken as indications of the intentions and personality traits of entire populations. If they were, all Australians would be loud, sing almost constantly and know not how to move unless through the medium of liturgical dance.
Attractive Couple, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
This time, it’s for real.
We had our full costume photoshoot on Wednesday for the promotional and support material. We don’t scrub up too bad, if I do say so myself.
It is a wild thought to think that all the costumes are being made, professionally, from scratch, and that we will each have three identical sets of costumes. In all their satin/lycra goodness. None of this ‘fang down to the local Lifeline, see what you can pick up, and maybe we will buy you material so you can sew what you can’t buy, beg, steal or borrow – oh, and can you make the costumes for five other men?’. BUDGET!!!!
Leah, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
This is Leah practicing her ‘Evil Cirque Pixie Imp of the Apocalypse’ look. Very convincing…
MiKyoung, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
Sexy Clown – What more can I say?
THE END
You WANT Me!, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
This is the way it all happened, step by concerning step.
Rach and I were met at Gate 8 of Yeoksam Station at 9.30 this morning, and were transported to the Hair Dresser, 8 stops away, by our assistant make-up designer, MiriYoung. At KanKuk Universtiy station, Rach and I had the amazing idea to take before and after shots using a conveniently placed ID photo booth. Above is the result.
Within 2 minutes of arrival at the salon, I was sat in a chair, and after a brief consultation of the prepratory sketch by the stylist, I was having foul smelling cream applied to my hair with a spatula and comb. ‘Gee’ I thought, they move fast with the colour around here… It wasn’t until I smelled the distinct smell of burning hair, that I looked at the tub, and what do you know, it sports the label: ‘GOPSUL Straight Cream’. What a concept.
After about half an hour, during which my hair turned to jelly and shed at least half its volume they had the foresight to rinse it out before I was left with an injury usually reserved for luekemia patients. It is a little concerning when they test your hair by pulling a single hair to see how far it stretches.
ANYWAY – The end result was one head of very black, and permenantly straight hair… If you DO want step-by-step documentation of what, on second thought, is a rather banal event, please follow the link above to my flickr account – I took many a photo, let’s just put it that way!!! (Plus I am too lazy to write anymore tonight…)
GELATI!, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
On walking home from rehearsal this evening, Leah and I discussed many things. Firstly, there is a very real Korean obsession with physical wellbeing. We came to this conclusion as we spied several people randomly assuming squatting positions on the opposite side of the road, at which time Leah mentioned that last night, she played the game of ‘count the number of Koreans stretching and/or observing physical maintenance practice’. It’s true – everywhere you go, someone is either beating themselves in some form of pseudo-Buddhist ritual, or stretching, or practicing simple yoga exercises. It is very bizarre. You wouldn’t see that on a crowded street in Brisbane. Unless you are in New Farm / Tenneriffe, and someone is decked out in their $700 running outfit and stretching for the benifit of anyone who may be watching.
Our topic of conversation naturally turned to ice cream, and although we had both previously vowed to never touch dairy again, within the space of 100 meters, we had convinced each other that Gelati was the best option. As if by divine appointment, a pleasantly colourful Gelateria named Dolmitis materialised in front of our very eyes.
AITHE CREAAAAM!!!
Five Fools Makeup Test, originally uploaded by jeremyinkorea.
This photo was taken on Saturday at our first make-up test. Believe it or not, the photos taken that day are the only ones I have of use together, so, this is how you are going to meet the incredibly talented cast of Five Fools:
Let’s start with me. Obviously the most attractive, and pulling a face absolutely MADE for children’s theatre! I play Lothario: The Musician.
To the right is MiKyeong. She is Korean. She is also a beautiful human being, and a seasoned performer. She has the privalage of being the eldest in the cast, which means that she gains the respect of her juniors – and she does so with much grace. She has travelled to Australia twice as a performer, and does a lot of work with the Sadari Theatre Company in Hyehwa (the theatre district in northern, ‘downtown’ Seoul), they have a multi-purpose facility with three theatres, a movement laboritory, music laboritory and a children’s research centre. She plays the Clown.
To her right is Rachael. This is Rach’s third and final season with LATT (for now). She studied acting in Sydney, and is currently doing masked dance workshops with an 80-year-old master from North Korea. I am very jealous. She plays the Ukulele like trooper and has a beautiful, jazzy voice. She plays the Fool.
Next, YoungHee – also Korean. I think YoungHee has been with LATT since the first season in 2003. She travels more than an hour everyday to work from Gimpo. She has a beautiful voice, and has also trained as a Pansori singer (Traditional Korean Song) and plays the korean drums. Unfortunately, she is self-labelled as a ‘turtle’ with regards to her acrobatic skills. YoungHee plays the Ring Master.
Last, but not least, is Leah. Leah is from Melbourne, and has worked as a dancer for many years in shows, and on cruise ships. There is some story about her being a World Yoga Champion, but she will not let us discuss it (she may have placed 4th). Leah plays my love interest, Petal: The Dancer (lucky thing) though she spends the majority of the show as a stuttering mute ( she has a total spoken word count of 1).
That’s it – that’s all of us.
