My Last Ever UPAD Showcase 2018

Today had not been the best so I will overlook it in favour of yesterday which also wasn't that great, in places. It was the showcase I had been dreading after all.

Having arrived on time, there wasn't a lot of hurry to start rehearsing, which meant I was left sitting around playing games on my phone until finally we started our warm-up session. This was perhaps the first bad part as Jenna and Lewis both ended up getting panic attacks after being yelled at to join in. Once upstairs in the Green Room (our assigned dressing room), with two walls of windows, it began to snow rather heavily. Beautiful given the amount of windows we had to view the city from. This was good and bad in turns: good because, yay snow and it was mesmerising, but also bad because, in this part of the country, bad weather spells disaster for any organised event meaning our audience was smaller than usual. 

When it came to our rehearsal slot, we were plagued with technical difficulties, from sounds playing at the wrong time or not at all, to lights being off when they should be on, the latter causing me to be literally ran over by Connor. I thought at first I'd knocked a tooth because I could taste blood and it hurt, but fortunately not. I was still left feeling exceedingly panicky after that. So I cheered myself up a bit with cut-price M&S sushi rolls and mini eggs. However, by the next rehearsal - just of that badly messed up chase scene - things went a lot smoother. The same could be said of the night itself, though we still had a few initial lighting problems, but I felt it went alright. I wear my bruises with some degree of pride at least. 

By the half way interval, I got curious to see who from UPAD past had turned up, and ended up ambushing my first director Alastair. Love him so much!

Fast forward to the after party at PL4 and things started to get pretty crazy. 

Once the party moved to the downstairs area, giving us our own bar, I danced with several friends, had a few drinks, and then we moved onto another bar nearby. I stayed here until 4am. Yep, took me until third year to decide I would voluntarily stay up that late. Needless to say, it impacted on my mental performance and window of time to work in today, but it was a night out that I remember, enjoyed, and did not regret, which is sadly a change from the usual social nights out which have often ended in tears or vomit. 

Anyway, I have some Netflix to get back to, so I shall keep you posted on my progress.