So now that I'm here...
Aug. 27th, 2003 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosI think I might be willing to do theatre again. I've added it to my interests, which I was thinking I wouldn't do. I've stopped denying that, even was I was over-worked and under-paid, I really enjoyed it.
As a hobby. That was my problem with everyone who wanted me to do a show or two in college; I don't like pro theatre. I don't like the training for pro theatre. I don't like the actors (mostly) and I don't like the directors (mostly). Both sets are pretentious and hate that you're in their way when you try to do your job. I don't like the way you're expected to do just one job and no-one appreciates you for it.
But there's a little, tiny community theatre maybe three blocks from our flat in Philadelphia, and I'm thinking of checking it out. I can paint, and sew, and build sets, and use power tools, and stage manage, and asm, and organize run crews. And I like to do lots of that at once. What's the fun in just being the stage floor painter when you can work in a community theater and attempt to work out set design for $200? Why should the fact that I can stage manage prevent me from running backstage and taking soda to my crew and fixing the broken trellis during intermission?
In a community theater, they actually appreciate people who know how to use jigsaws, reupholster a chair using a staplegun in three minutes, hand-hem velvet, change gels, and call cues. Golly. I could be unappreciated, work for free, garner remarkable bruises, and run around like a chicken with my head cut off when the feather duster prop goes missing three minutes before the show. Where else could I do that?
As a hobby. That was my problem with everyone who wanted me to do a show or two in college; I don't like pro theatre. I don't like the training for pro theatre. I don't like the actors (mostly) and I don't like the directors (mostly). Both sets are pretentious and hate that you're in their way when you try to do your job. I don't like the way you're expected to do just one job and no-one appreciates you for it.
But there's a little, tiny community theatre maybe three blocks from our flat in Philadelphia, and I'm thinking of checking it out. I can paint, and sew, and build sets, and use power tools, and stage manage, and asm, and organize run crews. And I like to do lots of that at once. What's the fun in just being the stage floor painter when you can work in a community theater and attempt to work out set design for $200? Why should the fact that I can stage manage prevent me from running backstage and taking soda to my crew and fixing the broken trellis during intermission?
In a community theater, they actually appreciate people who know how to use jigsaws, reupholster a chair using a staplegun in three minutes, hand-hem velvet, change gels, and call cues. Golly. I could be unappreciated, work for free, garner remarkable bruises, and run around like a chicken with my head cut off when the feather duster prop goes missing three minutes before the show. Where else could I do that?
Damn right
Date: 2003-08-29 05:27 pm (UTC)Louis
P.S. Have you been reading a lot of british novels or what? "theatRE"? "Flat"? Weirdo. 8]
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Date: 2003-10-24 09:46 am (UTC)By the way, I saw all the anthro stuff. That's what I have my B.A. in. I had more of an archeology focus, although my best friend is a zooarch girl. She worked for Brockington arch. for several years and can go on for hours about bones. When she moved to Boston included in the truck were four boxes full of dog skeletons. Her mother asked "what's in these boxes?" to which we responded "dead dogs." Ahh gotta love the zooarch. *friends*