How many people have gone to a play at least once in their life? Probably a lot, no? One would think people seeing a play would be able to exercise courtesy to the rest of the audience, and to the actors on stage. Today, at one of the plays for the Sears Drama Festival, there was a water buffalo-esque woman in the front freaking row taking pictures of the cast, as they were performing. This would seem normal in any other situation except for the fact that every time she focused the camera, it would make a (loud) beep noise. It wasn’t like she was taking pictures every couple of minutes, either, it was every four fucking seconds. As you can imagine, this got pretty god damn annoying after a while. It got so bad that I couldn’t even focus on what was going on in the play, even though it was bloody terrible. The actors didn’t move around the stage much, there was huge spaces in between lines, and the scene stayed the same the entire time. Still, this random lady kept taking picture after picture of this Godforsaken play. Then, low and behold, she whips out a second camera.
Now, this one didn’t beep. Oh no. It was a DSLR, and it had a huge lens attached to it. Of course she zoomed RIGHT in on the people, even though she was in the front row, and when she pressed the button, there was a “KAH-CHUNK” noise as the shutter closed. Oh hell no. I wouldn’t stand for it. I couldn’t take it any more. So, in retaliation, I thought very mean thoughts at her. I actually considered throwing the little ring thing from my Gatorade bottle at her, and pretending nothing happened, but decided that one of the people behind her would point me out, it would miss, or Joel (who I was sitting beside) would start laughing, therefore causing me to laugh. So I decided not to, and tried to tune her out. Finally she put it away, in time to see the mother get stoned for who knows what reason. Said stoned mother was played by my friend Helena, who was ACTUALLY the only one who did a good job, and stood out a lot. The adjudicator pointed her out at the end of it, during the public adjudication.
Sears has actually been pretty good so far. There’s been one or two good plays that I really liked and I think will be going on, but Jimz and Courtz have different opinions for some of them. The sets haven’t been as nice as ours, except for one that performed today, that rotated. It was kinda cool, but he said it was distracting. We’re hoping our set gets an award, cause Jimmy designed it. That would be cool. Right now however, I am tired and sick, so I am off to bed.
You should ALL go look at all of them.
