My life in the theater
I'm having an extremely busy couple of weeks, and it's just getting busier. My directing project #4 is due tomorrow and my actress still has not memorized her lines. STILL. She's only had the script for 4 weeks. I mean, really. 4 weeks. It's an 8 min. monologue. She's supposed to be an actress. Argh. Some of that is my fault, because we haven't had enough rehearsals. But we've had some. And she kept canceling. Oh well. I've got my final directing project coming up for finals next Friday, and we haven't rehearsed that yet, because my Student Directed One Act started tonight, and I've been spending all my time on that. Fortunately, they didn't do a repeat of Tuesday's dress rehearsal, which was the worst I've ever seen in the 10 years I've done theater. The worst. Tonight was good. Very good, considering we only got to work in the theater space for three days, for about 10 mins each night. Yeah.
Whoah. I just added 4 years in college, 4 years in high school, and 2 years in middle school. Shite. I've been doing theater stuff for 10 years? WTF!!! Wow. It doesn't seem that long. I suppose it's technically still 9 years...didn't we do musicals in the spring in middle school? Even so, it's almost/soon to be 10 years. Am I seriously that old? I remember deciding I wanted to work backstage after seeing 42nd Street in 6th grade. Now, I can't even remember the names of all the shows I've worked on.
I'm at a total of 15 shows here at LFC, which, considering I've only missed two while I was abroad, is pretty cool. I'm begining to be worn out on theater, though. The work on the executive board and the work on each of the plays and my thesis and spending time with my boyfriend and my classes and job hunting and my internship and my job...it's all going to be too much next semester. I've decided I'm not going to apply to direct a PIP (Playwrights in Progress) like I thought I would. I directed one last year and the year before, but it's just going to be too much. Maybe I'll do house crew or house managing for the Tempest. I'd like to do sound, but I'm going to have a Wed. night class next semester, and I can't be missing it all the time for rehearsal. I'll do little, easy things next semester, I think.
It's not that I don't love theater. It's just taken over my life a bit too much considering I'm not going to do it professionally. It's taught me a lot that I can use in the rest of my life, and it's changed me in a lot of positive ways. But it's also taught me things about myself and other people that I still want to change (ok, I don't mean I want to change other people, I want to change myself and my interactions with other people) and those changes aren't happening through my experiences in theater. I'm interested in learning other things, which the theater isn't going to teach me. It probably hasn't taught me all that it can, but it's taught me all that it can teach me here, or all that I can learn at this point in my life.
Anyway. That's my reflection on a decision I made recently. I always said I couldn't take theater out of my life, and I'm not going to. But I can cut down on what I do, and I simply have to do that.
Anyone tell me where the title of this entry comes from? And who wrote it? It's actually pretty easy. Oh, I paraphrased it a teeny, tiny bit.
Whoah. I just added 4 years in college, 4 years in high school, and 2 years in middle school. Shite. I've been doing theater stuff for 10 years? WTF!!! Wow. It doesn't seem that long. I suppose it's technically still 9 years...didn't we do musicals in the spring in middle school? Even so, it's almost/soon to be 10 years. Am I seriously that old? I remember deciding I wanted to work backstage after seeing 42nd Street in 6th grade. Now, I can't even remember the names of all the shows I've worked on.
I'm at a total of 15 shows here at LFC, which, considering I've only missed two while I was abroad, is pretty cool. I'm begining to be worn out on theater, though. The work on the executive board and the work on each of the plays and my thesis and spending time with my boyfriend and my classes and job hunting and my internship and my job...it's all going to be too much next semester. I've decided I'm not going to apply to direct a PIP (Playwrights in Progress) like I thought I would. I directed one last year and the year before, but it's just going to be too much. Maybe I'll do house crew or house managing for the Tempest. I'd like to do sound, but I'm going to have a Wed. night class next semester, and I can't be missing it all the time for rehearsal. I'll do little, easy things next semester, I think.
It's not that I don't love theater. It's just taken over my life a bit too much considering I'm not going to do it professionally. It's taught me a lot that I can use in the rest of my life, and it's changed me in a lot of positive ways. But it's also taught me things about myself and other people that I still want to change (ok, I don't mean I want to change other people, I want to change myself and my interactions with other people) and those changes aren't happening through my experiences in theater. I'm interested in learning other things, which the theater isn't going to teach me. It probably hasn't taught me all that it can, but it's taught me all that it can teach me here, or all that I can learn at this point in my life.
Anyway. That's my reflection on a decision I made recently. I always said I couldn't take theater out of my life, and I'm not going to. But I can cut down on what I do, and I simply have to do that.
Anyone tell me where the title of this entry comes from? And who wrote it? It's actually pretty easy. Oh, I paraphrased it a teeny, tiny bit.