So, I hate to be negative and complain - I especially hate to wallow in complaining. I really do try to roll with the punches as much as I can, but I can only take being an unwilling member of Fight Club so long. Since this my usual "get shit off my chest" outlet, I shall vent again.
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I have been waiting since last May or June to work Hamlet. I've always loved the show and felt flattered that JJ took me up on my interest to work the show. It should have been a red flag when I found out a few weeks becore we started rehearsals that I was an SM and there were 4 ADs. Apparently JJ was trying to repeat the set up for the 4 actor version of Romeo/Juliet with the ADs. That would be fine - if they were going to show up everytime, but they had all changed jobs since then, all work retail and all barely ever made it to rehearsals.
Since JJ had never worked with me before, he didn't trust me to have input - which became offensive on a few occasions. I have recently found out that Flannery and Christoph have felt the same way. The ONLY tech person with the show not pissed off by JJ is Jason - his boyfriend.
I guess I have been ongoingly afraid that this experience would end up being disappointing since I've been so looking forward to it, but it doesn't make me any less mad or frustrated. For one thing, JJ has supposedly been planning for this show for almost a year. Granted that he had quite a jump on costumes, but set items and props have been so lacking that we haven't had major items to work with until the final 2 nights of dress. Granted that he had to work around Skanks show, but then you adapt or your full show suffers. This show has more intensivescene change than Muse's McBeth ever throught of being - and with fewer stagehands.
