So I'm in the Rocky Horror Stage Show; which is the regular Picture Show but acted out, danced, sung, entirely on stage: no movie playing behind us. It's my fourth year in a row; I'll be playing the Criminologist...
There have, as will be the case with many a stage production, been some complications; we don't even know what weekend we're going up yet; there is technical issue after technical issue (starting with the theater telling us that the weekend we'd had booked was double-booked and we had to choose a different weekend)... (I'll let you all know, of course, whenever we decide what weekend it'll be showing; it'll be in April)
I usually like to stay out of silly drama and interpersonal tensions amongst theater productions; but I find it has become harder, over the years, to mind my own business. I keep getting tapped on the shoulder for my opinion on so-and-so or so-and-so; and I guess it must be my fault for having a little gossippy side (i haven't decided yet whether that's a bad thing or not) but often i do give my opinion... I just wish we could just do Rocky, and be expressive of mad sexuality and work hard to make a good show and just... just be performers, I guess... Just dance and sing and be chill with each other and not develop wierd politics around that simple, supposedly fun thing...
...oh well... since I'm crim I can usually just sit by and choose to stare at my script or my homework if I really want... But the people-tension is getting somehow more irresistable; I think when I was new to Rocky I authentically didn't care; I don't even remember what 'politics' were going on my freshman year, really: even though people say there were lots... I think maybe that now even I am being dragged into that compulsion to involve myself in people's peeves against each other; and to be more informed about why i or someone else should be annoyed at so-and-so... The little exchanges between the director and the cast members.. amongst the cast members... between the trannys and the leads... Agh!! Even I cannot remain pure!! I have succumbed! It is hopeless!!
Why?! Why must there always be so much "drama" in drama? Can theater people just not control themselves?? Does what's going on in 'the play' start to become, at a certain point, much more than what's going on in the script? Do actors just become bored with their real lives at some point, and just feel the need to make them emulate the dilemmas they're acting out onstage??
There have, as will be the case with many a stage production, been some complications; we don't even know what weekend we're going up yet; there is technical issue after technical issue (starting with the theater telling us that the weekend we'd had booked was double-booked and we had to choose a different weekend)... (I'll let you all know, of course, whenever we decide what weekend it'll be showing; it'll be in April)
I usually like to stay out of silly drama and interpersonal tensions amongst theater productions; but I find it has become harder, over the years, to mind my own business. I keep getting tapped on the shoulder for my opinion on so-and-so or so-and-so; and I guess it must be my fault for having a little gossippy side (i haven't decided yet whether that's a bad thing or not) but often i do give my opinion... I just wish we could just do Rocky, and be expressive of mad sexuality and work hard to make a good show and just... just be performers, I guess... Just dance and sing and be chill with each other and not develop wierd politics around that simple, supposedly fun thing...
...oh well... since I'm crim I can usually just sit by and choose to stare at my script or my homework if I really want... But the people-tension is getting somehow more irresistable; I think when I was new to Rocky I authentically didn't care; I don't even remember what 'politics' were going on my freshman year, really: even though people say there were lots... I think maybe that now even I am being dragged into that compulsion to involve myself in people's peeves against each other; and to be more informed about why i or someone else should be annoyed at so-and-so... The little exchanges between the director and the cast members.. amongst the cast members... between the trannys and the leads... Agh!! Even I cannot remain pure!! I have succumbed! It is hopeless!!
Why?! Why must there always be so much "drama" in drama? Can theater people just not control themselves?? Does what's going on in 'the play' start to become, at a certain point, much more than what's going on in the script? Do actors just become bored with their real lives at some point, and just feel the need to make them emulate the dilemmas they're acting out onstage??
VIEW 11 of 11 COMMENTS
-or I'll get all dramariffic on you.
Dave