Ow! What Was That For? I Got You Your Shrubbery Already! What More Do You Want?

lololololololol so my director decided that the stage manager for our upcoming production is gonna be acting in a scene???? like wHAT??? it's only me backstage, because high school theatre budget, so what if it all goes to heck?????? and that scene is actually going to be cut and carried through the entire show????

Directoral Whimsy is a serious concern.

Production Update

Today at rehearsal, we did a full-cast line run, with a good 5 minutes spent trying to figure out how to number the pages, and a few rearranges.

After that, while people practiced, I stole the director's tape measure to measure a very tall flat that we're (me) gonna paint.

Although, because I am not the tallest, I asked the tallest actor we have (who was conveniently near where I was measuring) if they could help me measure the flat.

It worked, and I kept that tape measure on my belt for the rest of rehearsal, as well as a Sharpie if I needed it. My stage manager, upon seeing my ingenuity, wanted to try, but it didn't work as their pants had no belt loops for some reason.

Anyways, for the rest of rehearsal, because us on tech had nothing to do, the sound designer, the stage manager and I all played Hangman.

Anyways, only 6 weeks left and we've only just started actually rehearsing!!!

Beach at night with a full moon. Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. July 2022.

I'm sorry but your boyfriend? He rolled under the fridge and we can't seem to find him. I'm so sorry for your loss.

and don't forget:

"Oh, we can figure it out next week." *Doesn't give time to work on it next week*

*Laughs when someone is stressed* "I'm not laughing."

"Why are you all so tired?" *It's literally 8oclock*

*I slightly raise my voice* "Don't yell at me."

*Doesn't tell me the set for a scene* "You should know the set!"

things my director has said and done that makes me hate them so much:

"Oh, we don't need to worry about lights and sound until tech rehearsals, you don't need to write anything down." *a little later* "Why didn't you write anything down?"

"This show will be much less stressful." *adds projections*

*casts new company members as actors instead of letting me ask them about backstage work*

"You have no reason to be stressed out."

Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

There was one actor that was on stage crew like twice and was like 'She always communicated with me!' like im sorry bro were you TECHNICALLY the ONLY PERSON on stage crew for a super set-heavy and tech-heavy show? Did you have to paint multiple set pieces last minute during tech week? I don't think so.

My stress inducing director is gone!

She decided to move to another school and didn't tell us, just like how she never told me whenever the show order changed. It hasn't really sunk in yet, but I am relieved. That woman was the cause of so much of my anxiety and she is finally gone.

Some of the actors are like: "omg she was so nice!!!". Honey, please. "She communicated with me so well!!!" Seriously?

Ah, the duality of man.

Anyways, we're getting a different drama teacher to run our theatre company this year, so that's gonna hopefully be fun.

I have some great news to tell my therapist.

Hello! yes it is! all the queers & genderqueers & questionings & aspecs welcome!

Can you please reblog if your blog is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, non binary, demisexual or any other kind of queer or questioning people? Because mine is.

Me: I'm not a theatre kid.

Also me: Memorized a whole monologue with my friends in the same high school theatre company and can now say it word-for-word, memorized all the songs in the show i did in December, (even the instrumentals) had backstage dance parties during songs when I wasn't onstage, colour-coded my script so that each actor had a different colour, and talked about the show when i was supposed to be doing something else

Today during rehearsal I was painting something for a run and some of the actors begged me to come back and help them because everyone was missing the set changes. Hey, it's not my fault if NO ONE WRITES IT DOWN!