AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH
ugh! i am rather pissed off at the moment. im working on a production of fiddler on the roof and the director, katie, just chewed me out for no reason. im one of the ASM's for the show, so while watching the show tonight, i took notes. like i always do. after the show, we were doing notes really quickly. katie ran through all of hers. i said i had a few and she said go ahead. i made a comment about how 'rajanka' should be pronounced 'rayanka'. she said this was a directing note, which i didn't realize was a Majorly Bad Thing. i went on to say that fyedka's name was not fi-edka, but fyedka, to watch out for the floor mics during the russian dance and to take costumes home that night. after we were done katie said she wanted to talk to me, and i assumed it was about costuming (since i am also doing that), so i went to gather up my stuff and came back.
when i approached her again, she turned on me and literally told me i was "never, ever, ever, ever to do that again", that the note about the floor mics was good, but that i wasn't to give directing notes (ie comments on pronounciation). i apologized and pretty much got "don't do it again" as my response.
a bit taken aback, i went to collect the various costume stuff backstage. when i was done, i went back out to explain and apologize to katie. i told her i was sorry, and that the way i was used to doing things with other theater groups was the director gave notes and then the sm's/asm's gave any other notes, so i didn't realize i wasn't allowed to. katie then told me that wasn't the way we did things here, that "we stay in our places."
stay in our places? WTF?!
i gave two comments, TWO that i wasn't supposed to. and i understand not wanting to change stuff a week before the show opens. fine, that's cool, but i had run pronounciation comments by her earlier and she agreed, and even gave one of them.
basically im sick and tired of being chastized like a little child who has no idea of what the hell she is doing. i do. i've been doing this for years. and it's not as if i don't know what im doing when it comes to russian, at least as far as pronounciation goes. honestly, i don't really care if they say rajanka or rayanka, but fyedka is a MAJOR character in the play. everybody knows his name, and they're going to realize it when you say his name wrong because of the transliteration.
i have no problem with doing things katie's way, but it wouldn't have hurt her to be polite about it, especially because i wasn't being antagonistic in any way. since i haven't been sitting through the end of rehearsals to this point (as i've been doing costuming) and covenant players changes directors every show, i had no way of knowing this was off limits. and for the shakespeare in the dark shows i've worked on, and premiere theater this year, comments were welcomed. she didn't even acknowledge my apologies or explanations, just lambasted me.
julia says that it sounds more like katie is really insecure than anything i did, and i tend to agree. there's been a power struggle this show going on between katie (director), sarah (set design), and angelo (SM) this show anyhow. charlotte (the other ASM) and i were discussing this on headset today, about how we tried to stay under the radar lest we get yelled at, and jen (the choreographer) made the comment that when she tried to make suggestions to katie (just to katie) that it was like she was having an argument...only jen wasn't arguing, katie was just reacting as if she were.
angelo i have no problem with, because if something is being done different than i suggest, he states it matter of factly. not like im stupid or a screw-up, just a statement of 'this is how it's being done.' that's fine. i don't have a problem with them having the final decisions. im just tired of being yelled at like a child. i've gotten it from katie, not just today, and from sarah. i understand that they're both tired and stressed, but dude, don't take it out on me.
when i approached her again, she turned on me and literally told me i was "never, ever, ever, ever to do that again", that the note about the floor mics was good, but that i wasn't to give directing notes (ie comments on pronounciation). i apologized and pretty much got "don't do it again" as my response.
a bit taken aback, i went to collect the various costume stuff backstage. when i was done, i went back out to explain and apologize to katie. i told her i was sorry, and that the way i was used to doing things with other theater groups was the director gave notes and then the sm's/asm's gave any other notes, so i didn't realize i wasn't allowed to. katie then told me that wasn't the way we did things here, that "we stay in our places."
stay in our places? WTF?!
i gave two comments, TWO that i wasn't supposed to. and i understand not wanting to change stuff a week before the show opens. fine, that's cool, but i had run pronounciation comments by her earlier and she agreed, and even gave one of them.
basically im sick and tired of being chastized like a little child who has no idea of what the hell she is doing. i do. i've been doing this for years. and it's not as if i don't know what im doing when it comes to russian, at least as far as pronounciation goes. honestly, i don't really care if they say rajanka or rayanka, but fyedka is a MAJOR character in the play. everybody knows his name, and they're going to realize it when you say his name wrong because of the transliteration.
i have no problem with doing things katie's way, but it wouldn't have hurt her to be polite about it, especially because i wasn't being antagonistic in any way. since i haven't been sitting through the end of rehearsals to this point (as i've been doing costuming) and covenant players changes directors every show, i had no way of knowing this was off limits. and for the shakespeare in the dark shows i've worked on, and premiere theater this year, comments were welcomed. she didn't even acknowledge my apologies or explanations, just lambasted me.
julia says that it sounds more like katie is really insecure than anything i did, and i tend to agree. there's been a power struggle this show going on between katie (director), sarah (set design), and angelo (SM) this show anyhow. charlotte (the other ASM) and i were discussing this on headset today, about how we tried to stay under the radar lest we get yelled at, and jen (the choreographer) made the comment that when she tried to make suggestions to katie (just to katie) that it was like she was having an argument...only jen wasn't arguing, katie was just reacting as if she were.
angelo i have no problem with, because if something is being done different than i suggest, he states it matter of factly. not like im stupid or a screw-up, just a statement of 'this is how it's being done.' that's fine. i don't have a problem with them having the final decisions. im just tired of being yelled at like a child. i've gotten it from katie, not just today, and from sarah. i understand that they're both tired and stressed, but dude, don't take it out on me.