I realize I attend a Community College, but Jesus, Mary, & Joseph!
Orange Coast College's school newspaper did a review for The Ten or Less Festival, the show I'm in that opened last Friday. It's truly the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. I just have to post a few exerts from it, because I think it's hilarious.
"Upon arrival to the freshly leaf-blown walkway of the Drama Lab Theatre, I felt a chipper, crisp snap of wind unravel my tightly woven psyche as the moonlight kissed the cafe glow of the ticket booth. I knew at that moment I was going to laugh a lot...I had never attended any production at OCC and had been thinking that I was going to see the usual cast of characters that you saw sitting by themselves at lunch time in high school."
That's the first paragraph. The wind always unravels my psyche! I wonder how the "moonlight glow of the ticket booth" made him realize he was going to laugh. I don't even know how to comment on his stereotyping theatre people, as far as I know, we never shut up.
Here's paragraph two:
"The tiny stage contained a table cloth draped with green cloth and four chairs foreshadowing in my mind what might happen." Could someone please tell me how a table and chairs foreshadows anything?! The paragraph concludes with: "The lights went numb and then-zam."
How do you make lights go numb and is "zam" even a word?
The review goes on to blandly describe some of the individual shows. His descriptions show that he knows nothing about theater or acting and I seriously doubt if he's ever attended a play before. Here's my favorite description:
"Acting 101 brought an onslaught of uber-dramatic energy that cousined with classroom humor in an attempt to display the quirky methods of a distinctly odd drama teacher who doesn't really care about the students."
That's right folks, he said "uber." Enough said.
Here's the last line of the review. I don't even know what this means.
"Notable mentions of the overall collection would be Sean Coutou and Dan Barnard as they made me believe that they were the character in real life pretending to be themselves on stage."
The best part of the article is the photo. That's almost exactly how I looked after I read the article.
"Upon arrival to the freshly leaf-blown walkway of the Drama Lab Theatre, I felt a chipper, crisp snap of wind unravel my tightly woven psyche as the moonlight kissed the cafe glow of the ticket booth. I knew at that moment I was going to laugh a lot...I had never attended any production at OCC and had been thinking that I was going to see the usual cast of characters that you saw sitting by themselves at lunch time in high school."
That's the first paragraph. The wind always unravels my psyche! I wonder how the "moonlight glow of the ticket booth" made him realize he was going to laugh. I don't even know how to comment on his stereotyping theatre people, as far as I know, we never shut up.
Here's paragraph two:
"The tiny stage contained a table cloth draped with green cloth and four chairs foreshadowing in my mind what might happen." Could someone please tell me how a table and chairs foreshadows anything?! The paragraph concludes with: "The lights went numb and then-zam."
How do you make lights go numb and is "zam" even a word?
The review goes on to blandly describe some of the individual shows. His descriptions show that he knows nothing about theater or acting and I seriously doubt if he's ever attended a play before. Here's my favorite description:
"Acting 101 brought an onslaught of uber-dramatic energy that cousined with classroom humor in an attempt to display the quirky methods of a distinctly odd drama teacher who doesn't really care about the students."
That's right folks, he said "uber." Enough said.
Here's the last line of the review. I don't even know what this means.
"Notable mentions of the overall collection would be Sean Coutou and Dan Barnard as they made me believe that they were the character in real life pretending to be themselves on stage."
The best part of the article is the photo. That's almost exactly how I looked after I read the article.