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[kattywoman2113]

OK, I have decided it is too much. I have been up all night trying to finish a project bc Samuel French did not send me my play on time and I had to change my play last night. That sucked balls. This is hell week for the one acts and I can barely manage to stay off book. I haven't even been able to do it yet bc we just blocked some stuff and I

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[celticpaladin]

I've been through great hell weeks, and I've been through shit hell weeks. Great direction, bad direction, no direction. Missing props, wrong props. Missed lines, skipped lines. Lights go out. Weird sound cues.

Sometimes nothing goes perfect until the first show. The second show. The last show. Sometimes you have to wince because the show before yours blows yours out of the water. Sometimes you have to wince because the show after yours is so much worse.

Want to know the secret to surviving? Here it is.

Don't tell anyone, but..

It doesn't matter. Things will go wrong. Directors and stage-managers will freak out. Don and george and Andrew have been doing this for so long, that they will know who is responsible for what. But what you are doing, cannot be for the director, or the SM, or your fellow actors, or even for the audience. This is your art. Whether or not you ever act again, this is your art, to make your own, to kick ass with, for you. True, with a lot of roles, the best job is the one that is unnoticed.