bethb's Diaryland Diary

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i hate actors.

so many things...
so many theatre things...
so many crappy theatre things...
like there's this show called "slings and arrows" that i haven't seen, but there's a guy working here who has been on the show, and in his first episode, he gets up at the first rehearsal of MacDude and says something like "if i may, i'd like to recite the first speech" or something...and my friend's fiance was cracking up because he thought it was hysterical, and it is...but it's also, well, pretty much how that actor is in real life.
flip to:
i've taken a small painting gig with an even smaller theatre that was doing a loose watery wash on some walls and cubes so it looks like ice. and they pulled out the flats, and well. they're soft-covered flats. from, like, 13 years ago. so tonight i'm going to have to do some serious hole patching because they look like butt. seriously...who the fuck has soft-cover flats anymore. if you really need to save space, you could still fucking face that shit with a piece of luan. ugh. and to add insult to the flats, whomever painted them (poorly, might i add. i was aghast to hear that they actually hired some russian designer for the show, because any kid with a paintbrush and apparently a sharpie marker could have made those pieces of crap) used a sharpie marker, which if you've ever tired to paint over, you know you can't unless you get a heavy-duty base-primer like a Killz primer because that is the only stuff i've ever seen abet the leaking of sharpie through layers of paint.
it's seriously maddening.
also, jan. 6th kicks off "sh@kespe@re in W@ashington" and we're doing a staged reading of 12th night and apparently Balky from perferct strangers is in it. So they added a bunch of props yesterday that had to be done by today never mind the f-ing fact we go into our own tech for our own show on monday.
seriously? STC? WTF?
they have no concept of planning or time or hours. it's really ridiculous.
also, this shakes fest in washington is going to continually chap our hide, because every theatre that comes to town is going to forget something and we'll be the first fools they call since our theatre has "shakes" in it's title.
i guess there is the WSC in virginia, but that group is poorly staffed, run and funded.
people should never *ever* let actors do anything other than recite other people's words.
Infact, i think all actors everywhere should have to go to grad school, where instead of a diploma, they get a box, not unlike vicki the robot from "small world" and that's where they go at night. back in their box.
or maybe all actors should be robots anyway. they wouldn't have to eat or poop, just take them out of the box and stick them on stage.
this might be the best idea ever.

6:09 p.m. - 2007-01-04

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