Contending in vain...
I’ve been involved with some problematical head spaces since I entered the world of theatre & particularly since I started trying to take it seriously. I’ve met people who lie every time they speak but become apoplectic at the disrespect shown in 3mintues of tardiness. I’ve met people who could not handle a conversation more confronting than the weather, who are in charge of six figure budgets. And I’ve met people whose job it is to answer the phone in a booking agency, who consider themselves so far above actors that they simply will not speak to them... unless the actor is cast in something current & popular.
I’m a flexible chap. I can find some common ground, some human contact point however briefly with each of these.
What I cannot understand tonight though, is how a major national conservatorium cannot organise a choir - a substantial part of the show - for a Mozart Opera, GIVEN that they had 18months notice to plan, act & get it up. How on earth can they now be saying, to all the people who've been preparing for this, without consulting with them, without any explanation, thanks but its too hard, we’ll have to run the show without a chorus - when the chorus is 30% of the bloody show?
And then they say we should take them & their work seriously...
I’m a flexible chap. I can find some common ground, some human contact point however briefly with each of these.
What I cannot understand tonight though, is how a major national conservatorium cannot organise a choir - a substantial part of the show - for a Mozart Opera, GIVEN that they had 18months notice to plan, act & get it up. How on earth can they now be saying, to all the people who've been preparing for this, without consulting with them, without any explanation, thanks but its too hard, we’ll have to run the show without a chorus - when the chorus is 30% of the bloody show?
And then they say we should take them & their work seriously...