Comments on: 21 Problems Only Community Theatre Actors Understand

By: Veronica Dobell Prior

Veronica Dobell Prior — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:09:16 +0000

When you land your bucket role, but the actor playing your love interest is a stick figure.

By: Veronica Dobell Prior

Veronica Dobell Prior — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:07:22 +0000

When you really, REALLY want the role, and work up not one, but two separate English accents (one posh and one drunk), and then an English actress shows up and you know there’s no hope.

By: Veronica Dobell Prior

Veronica Dobell Prior — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:04:59 +0000

When you are directing a show for a new production company that has no idea what they are doing, and, at load-in you find that you are expected to design the set on the spot, as it has to be up in 4 hours. You’ve already brought in the kitchen unit, the sofa bed, and the dead plants. You have been rehearsing in the lead actor’s apartment. So you rent a bunch of flats from the venue you’re using and throw it together off the top of your head.

As a side note, one reviewer said it was the best set he’d seen on that stage, and he lamented that there was no set design credit in the program. I lamented it, too, as it was me.

By: Heather Wan

Heather Wan — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:14:01 +0000

Or when you stand on the stage for half an hour during tech week cause your director can’t decide whether she wants the light purple or the dark purple for that scene.

By: Heather Wan

Heather Wan — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:13:04 +0000

Raise your hand if you nearly died during tech week. Or raise your hand when you totally knew that one actor would get the role you wanted cause she impressed your director during the info night when she sang. *shoots her hand into the sky*

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:48:55 +0000

When you lose your dream role to a theatre-holic who has done the same damned show three times before.

By: Keith Spillett

Keith Spillett — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 06:15:08 +0000

When the band is set on the stage, and the drummer is half an hour late because of traffic.

By: I J Kerr

I J Kerr — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 05:52:09 +0000

Fixing a prop… with a hot glue gun… at intermission… in costume.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:25:18 +0000

Doing two shows at the same time. One in production and one in early rehearsals. It’s “OMG, I only have 5 minutes to get to my next rehearsal!”

By: Blake L Senseman

Blake L Senseman — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 03:19:28 +0000

When you have no living room furniture because it’s on the set of your latest play.