Frustrated

Jan. 31st, 2007 06:27 pm
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It's been a long time, and plenty has happened - but mainly the past 5 months of my life can be summed up in: Class. Rehearsal. More Class. Movie. Concert. Rehearsal. Show. Rehearsal. Class.

Dear Director,
I realize that you feel you are doing the best you possibly can, I get it. I even understand that you are 40+ years older than me and have directed, written, and performed in more plays than I have ever read. But please, I beg of you, do Not piss me off. I haven't been in a screaming match in SIX Lo-ng years and to be frank I desperately miss it. I have been the epitome of polite, I have never raised my voice, I have never uttered an unpleasant word to anyone - so why is it that you keep cutting my pale impression of authority off at the knees? You really needn't, telling me I was wrong in private would have done the job just as well as doing so in front of the cast (who are, also, decades older than me and who I am finding it quite hard to control). I did two things: 1) I told them that they couldn't call line anymore , to which you stopped me mid-sentence and told that that wasn't what you wanted and 2) I asked (not ordered) them if they would be willing to help the techs finish the set - primarily because we have been cleaning up at 11pm most nights because there are two guys hanging lights and then me and/or the set designer painting. I didn't order them to help, I didn't even guilt trip them into doing so, I asked. And you said that the actors were the first priority that I shouldn't ask them for their help because they had to be up in the morning (apparently unlike me) and that they need to be well rested for the rehearsal the next night (I guess if I can manage to run the lights and sound board while sleeping that'll be just fine). You aren't only upsetting me, you're pissing off the set designer by constantly changing his design and then changing your mind and asking for the first option again. The sound designer whispered to me during notes "Can you kill him for me?". And the lighting designer is having such a crappy few days I don't know what's bothering him.
I can only hope that when we open for the public on Friday night that you will relinquish your role as almighty god-wannabe and sit down and shut up like the rest of the actors. I will not be angry, I will not - I will find solace in flirting with the techs/cast and ignore you as much as possible.
Sincerely, Your Less Than Peachy-Keen SM
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