[The_Return]

The stupid play that I'm in...

A couple of my theatre friends decided to get a crew together and put on a production of The Breakfast Club. They found a script online, got a cast lined up, and went right into rehearsals.

Now, everyone involved has a bunch of acting experience, but nobody (except for me) has directed before. On top of that, we dont have a stage manager.

Well, the girls "directing" only set aside about a month for rehearsals, and didn't give anyone a set schedule until about 2 weeks ago. We open on the 2nd, and NOBODY is prepared. Thanks to the lack of a schedule, we've only really had 1 full cast rehearsal.

A month is more than enough time for professionals to get a play like this set up and ready to go, but we're all amateurs and neither of the "directors" have ever attempted anything like this. We've got the shell of a pretty awesome show...everyone in it is really talented, and we're using the original script, so we're working with gold. But because everything is so rushed and thrown together, I'm really scared that it wont work out.

I'm really glad that I'm not one of the principals - I play Mr Vernon, if anyone's familiar with the show. I only pop up in one or two scenes, it's a super easy part. I feel really bad for everyone else though...they hardly leave the stage at all. If I had a part like that with this amount of preparation, I'd be shitting my pants about now...