Wednesday, April 10, 2013

the youth group

A difficult evening rehearsal with the youth. Its hard to keep 37 people engaged for three hours; even in a chorus play you're going to have more individualised scenes but the level of inattention reached yesterday was headache inducing. It was also laced with an unpleasant sideline where one actor sitting on the rostra at the back kept pinpointing his girlfriend sitting down on the stage as the source of a lot of the noise, which she wasnt. Ironically just as we started working out a page which dealt with the difficulty of getting a happy marriage. He shouted down to her repeatedly what are you doing? be quiet! what are you here for?

They were mortified when I said at the end that it was the first session I hadn't enjoyed. Must finish it tomorrow.

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