Parting is such sweet sorrow...
The run went well, other than the whole getting sick and losing my voice for the second weekend. It's a little hard to do a character whose sole feature is volume when you can barely talk, but oh well. ACTF went pretty smoothly, as did strike. I wound up with the same strike-time frustrations as always. None of the actors really want to be there, but they go about handling this in one of two ways: some people pitch in and help so that everyone can leave a little sooner, and some people stand around with their thumbs up their asses so that they don't have to do the work that they don't want to be doing. Oh well. One more play down.
So, onto directing. Going well, albeit slowly. Rehearsals were moving along at a slower pace, since three of my actors, not to mention I myself, all had R&G as a schedule constraint. But, now that's over, and it's time to kick things into high gear. Opening night is in less than three weeks, and there is work to do.
Until next time...
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also, those who do know what they're doing during strike tend to be condescending towards those who don't and they get frustrated. It's a vicious cycle.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I'm being condescending, but people with nothing to do can always ask. Most of strike doesn't take any knowledge of anything. It's pushing, pulling and lifting things where you are told to push, pull and lift them.
ReplyDeleteI apologize if I came off condescending, because it wasn't my intent. Inflections don't read so well when there isn't actually a voice to hear.