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Oh, the joy....
Sep. 7th, 2006 03:40 pmI'm directing a play.... again.... and I'm wondering why I actually do it.... again....
Let me give you all a run down of the last 2 weeks:
1. Rehearsals were slow to start - no ones fault, but it's just shit that happened. This has put me a bit under the pump, but we'll survive.
2. Room bookings have proven to be the normal nightmare. Again I'm used to that - and used to the dreaded 'space hunt' during rehearsals. It's all part and parcel of trying ot use the unions limited reasources.
3. I've had 4 of my cast pull out on me. And only 1 (Erica) actually did it in a timely fashion.
Another did so at the readthrough (fair's fair) because it clashed with another project (drama project that is) that he was doing as part of his course..
Another did so when they realised they might actually ahve to do some work (OMG, plays need work? Who knew?) - but they did give me some warning.
And then I had another pull out that decided to wait untill we'd used up a week and a half of our 6 week rehearsal period... She'd told me she was worried because the show dates clashed with teaching placements. Which is fine, but I'm sure they were clashing, oh I don't know, 3 weeks ago...
4. One of my cast has been sick for the past week. Recovered now, but that means her scene (which I was supposed to have covered off by now) hasn't had any work on it whatsoever.
So, after 1 bout of ilness, 4 (yes 4) re-castings, and a couple of holidays, hopefully we'll now start to settle into it a bit....
From what I have seen, there's been some excellent, excellent work. And now that my lead and my Assistant Director don't have another project going on, it'll only get better
Let me give you all a run down of the last 2 weeks:
1. Rehearsals were slow to start - no ones fault, but it's just shit that happened. This has put me a bit under the pump, but we'll survive.
2. Room bookings have proven to be the normal nightmare. Again I'm used to that - and used to the dreaded 'space hunt' during rehearsals. It's all part and parcel of trying ot use the unions limited reasources.
3. I've had 4 of my cast pull out on me. And only 1 (Erica) actually did it in a timely fashion.
Another did so at the readthrough (fair's fair) because it clashed with another project (drama project that is) that he was doing as part of his course..
Another did so when they realised they might actually ahve to do some work (OMG, plays need work? Who knew?) - but they did give me some warning.
And then I had another pull out that decided to wait untill we'd used up a week and a half of our 6 week rehearsal period... She'd told me she was worried because the show dates clashed with teaching placements. Which is fine, but I'm sure they were clashing, oh I don't know, 3 weeks ago...
4. One of my cast has been sick for the past week. Recovered now, but that means her scene (which I was supposed to have covered off by now) hasn't had any work on it whatsoever.
So, after 1 bout of ilness, 4 (yes 4) re-castings, and a couple of holidays, hopefully we'll now start to settle into it a bit....
From what I have seen, there's been some excellent, excellent work. And now that my lead and my Assistant Director don't have another project going on, it'll only get better
