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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #15 on: Feb 16, 2010, 10:41 pm »
Always early but
never bring your own lunch.  why?
I'm not a waitress.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #16 on: Mar 21, 2010, 12:41 am »
"She doesn't like me!"
"She'll sabotage my change!"
Since when are we 12?
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #17 on: Mar 21, 2010, 05:20 am »
Giggle in the wings
"Getting into character"
They can all hear you !

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #18 on: Mar 21, 2010, 09:41 am »
Broken, missing props--
Because I'm "method acting"
They're in the wrong place.

If you want to see
Some "method stage managing"
Put the props away.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #19 on: Mar 23, 2010, 09:28 am »


If you want to see
Some "method stage managing"
Put the props away.


very funny!
ChaCha

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #20 on: Mar 29, 2010, 04:53 pm »
You're a senior.
You have special permissions.
no you don't.

(in reference to seniors in the department thinking they are "special")

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #21 on: Mar 30, 2010, 09:59 am »
Sent me email: "I'm sick
And wife is in Bangladesh -
Won't you please bring soup?"

What's fifty times worse--
Sick man with no wife around,
Or sick male actor?

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #22 on: Apr 02, 2010, 01:40 am »
You've been here months.  I'm
new, not stupid, for asking
where I can find things.
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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #23 on: Apr 02, 2010, 05:14 pm »
As is probably the woe of many of us New Englanders...

theatre is flooded
you left your shoes on the floor
they floated away

it flooded again
are shoes still left on the floor?
guess you'll go barefoot!
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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #24 on: Apr 05, 2010, 11:35 pm »
Are you kidding me?
Why don't you have a pencil?
Give this back to me.

Oh God, where is she?
We open in five minutes.
Some one's going to die.

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #25 on: Apr 06, 2010, 11:25 am »
No, I won't kick out
"that smelly, dirty, fat man":
that'd be our playwright.
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. -Ionesco

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #26 on: Jun 05, 2010, 12:43 am »
Two times to touch props:
If it is yours, or if you
Want your blood on it.

Places NOW, children.
Why are you not in costume?
STOP talking backstage!
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #27 on: Jun 05, 2010, 01:16 am »
We know you're clever.
We have a director
Please at least try his version of the play

You want line notes?
Here's one.
Learn your lines!

You don't need to tell me
your beats, your intentions, your choices
just do the damn blocking.
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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #28 on: Jun 05, 2010, 11:26 pm »
You are a Diva.
Do you deserve the title?
Do you have talent?

You are a Diva.
Graduating does not a
Professional make.

You are a Diva.
 I smile at the tantrums
I value my work.    ;D

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Re: Thread to vent about / Actors behaving badly / As haiku only
« Reply #29 on: Jun 09, 2010, 11:12 pm »
We know you're clever.
We have a director
Please at least try his version of the play

You want line notes?
Here's one.
Learn your lines!

You don't need to tell me
your beats, your intentions, your choices
just do the damn blocking.

exactly how I have felt many times... bravo.
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