Shacky Weekend
I am very glad that I survived this particular weekend.....
Usually for other people, a weekend is a good time to rest and have fun and recharge. But for me, a weekend is for me to work like a cow or a tractor, whichever works harder.
I had my second major joint rehearsals on sat and MORE rehearsals on sunday.
On saturday, there was alot of work to be done. On my rundown list, there were 22 things to be done so I was working from afternoon 12 pm to night 9.30om nonstop. Then after that I had a technical meeting. I had to carry stuff, setup a temporary stage, set music corner blah blah blah. I only had fifteen min of rest to eat dinner and then it was work work work again..... I thought I lost about 2 kg. I was so tired that I really didnt feel like eating....
Anyway, after all these technical busying around, we had the worst major rehearsal I had ever seen for this production. The actors were as if they were somewhere else, there were some technical faults with lighting (due to miscommunications) some music too slow and everything else. But mainly, everybody was unhappy with the actors/ actresses.
The happy side is that there was a bright spark which came as a surprise to me, and I have oredi invited her to act in my directorial debut in august so that was one matter settled. (But I really need an actor now)
After this rehearsal, I realise for the same issue, there can be wide creative differences. I usually thought good was good bad was bad but I realise my director and I really have quite big different thinking about the same things.
During a debrief for the rehearsals, she scolded the lead quite badly. To me, the lead did have some problems, but were solvable given some work. I thought the supporting actor was worse, his problems cannot be solved easily, but my director just reminded him repeatedly.... I was wondering why my director thought differently about who was worse....... Anyway she is the director and I am just the stage manager so I am suppose to keep quiet....
Then again, perhaps she was more 'gan cheong' (anxious) because the lead is more important than anything.......
Anyway after the rehearsal morale was low among cast members aware of the horrible work they did. (some unaware people told me was a good rehearsal) So I put away my usual critical self and told some cast that it was QUITE good already. Well of course i didnt reveal that it was quite good compared to the horrendous hall productions I have seen in NUS. (Mr Sua, if you are reading this dont tell the others haha)
Lucky rehearsals ended 4pm sunday and I had two hour class for scripting before going home quickly. Then GEKL and I went to watch 'Jarhead' but by then I was too tired to pay attention to the details of the movie and so there would be no review for this show. However, I would recommend it to everyone (M18) and you would love it, no doubt.
Usually for other people, a weekend is a good time to rest and have fun and recharge. But for me, a weekend is for me to work like a cow or a tractor, whichever works harder.
I had my second major joint rehearsals on sat and MORE rehearsals on sunday.
On saturday, there was alot of work to be done. On my rundown list, there were 22 things to be done so I was working from afternoon 12 pm to night 9.30om nonstop. Then after that I had a technical meeting. I had to carry stuff, setup a temporary stage, set music corner blah blah blah. I only had fifteen min of rest to eat dinner and then it was work work work again..... I thought I lost about 2 kg. I was so tired that I really didnt feel like eating....
Anyway, after all these technical busying around, we had the worst major rehearsal I had ever seen for this production. The actors were as if they were somewhere else, there were some technical faults with lighting (due to miscommunications) some music too slow and everything else. But mainly, everybody was unhappy with the actors/ actresses.
The happy side is that there was a bright spark which came as a surprise to me, and I have oredi invited her to act in my directorial debut in august so that was one matter settled. (But I really need an actor now)
After this rehearsal, I realise for the same issue, there can be wide creative differences. I usually thought good was good bad was bad but I realise my director and I really have quite big different thinking about the same things.
During a debrief for the rehearsals, she scolded the lead quite badly. To me, the lead did have some problems, but were solvable given some work. I thought the supporting actor was worse, his problems cannot be solved easily, but my director just reminded him repeatedly.... I was wondering why my director thought differently about who was worse....... Anyway she is the director and I am just the stage manager so I am suppose to keep quiet....
Then again, perhaps she was more 'gan cheong' (anxious) because the lead is more important than anything.......
Anyway after the rehearsal morale was low among cast members aware of the horrible work they did. (some unaware people told me was a good rehearsal) So I put away my usual critical self and told some cast that it was QUITE good already. Well of course i didnt reveal that it was quite good compared to the horrendous hall productions I have seen in NUS. (Mr Sua, if you are reading this dont tell the others haha)
Lucky rehearsals ended 4pm sunday and I had two hour class for scripting before going home quickly. Then GEKL and I went to watch 'Jarhead' but by then I was too tired to pay attention to the details of the movie and so there would be no review for this show. However, I would recommend it to everyone (M18) and you would love it, no doubt.
posted by Kian Tong at 10:38 AM
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