For any of you who don't know me, Mrs A (or Mrs Alderson as she's called by normal people ie. non-drama peeps) is the head of drama in my school, and director of our current production, Kiss Me Kate. She's usually alright, albeit she does have her favourites (*cough* Vicky Anderson *cough*) but other than that, she's pretty nice. However, about this time every year, she switches to full bitch mode! It's something to do with stress...i dunno, all i know is that she nags for the teeniest things, forgets things to the point of making want to reach our for something blunt and heavy..... and has double standards. For example, in total I have had to miss 3 rehearals for the show, but because i am the lead (ok, for 1 night of 3, but that's not the point) she went apeshit at me, even though VA has missed loads (she's Kate for the other 2 nights....). One was for a fucking hangover. The only reason i have missed them is cos i have loads of exams right now. She doesn't get that i'm working my ass off for her, being an honorary member of the crew, helping Alison (me bestest buddy....well, one of them) who's Stage Manager (well, one of them....), and i knew almost all of my lines today, even though i had an exam today, too. Also, i was soooooooooo tired today after working so hard, and VA didn't even FUCKING TURN UP!!!! I know i shouldn't give so much up for drama, but it's what i love to do, and i love the way i feel when i've just done well on stage. I can't even be bothered going into the saga about Sunday's rehearsal. I can't be bothered, but it doesn't mean i won't.
Well, i found out at easter, i couldn't make it to my dress rehearsal on monday 16th June, cos at the EXACT same time i have 2 bio exams. I spoke to Alina (the other Stage Manager) and she told me to tell Mrs A and i could just do the dress on sunday, and Cast A could do it on monday. I said this to her, as did both Alina and Ali, and she said it was fine to swap them. Then two weeks ago i just mentioned to her, to make sure she remembered, and she looked at me as if i was speaking Latin. She made out to everyone that this was this huuuuuuge problem, finally figuring out that all we had to do was swap the two casts around (she was talking about swapping just me and V, and then have one guy do both dresses, etc) this took literally about 10 minutes. Finally, we sorted it (i thought), and it was all cool. Soon after that i gave her a list of all my exams, so she would know when i couldn't come to rehearsals. This totalled to 4 i would have to miss. Then, for some reason she started going on about how i was missing so many rehearsals that i wouldn't know what to do at the performance etc. She was telling everyone. I finally set her (and everyone else) straight, by telling her i could make it to the sunday dress fine. 2 DAYS LATER, SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT ME MISSING THE FUCKING DRESS REHEARSAL!!!!!!! ARGGGGGG......finally on monday, we sorted teh ones i was coming to. I think she now understands..i hope...... |
