Sunday, September 09, 2007
8:15 To Canada
The past few days has been interesting.
For one, I found out my boyfriend has been moved to Canada, and is now going to school at UOttawa. This is pretty devastating, but there is good news. He comes to visit twice a month, and the semester ends in December (when, hopefully, he moves back in with his dad) - so he will only be gone four months. Four very long months.
The next day I got taken out of school to drive to Pittsburgh. We picked up Roger and the grandparents at the airport and went out to a bad Italian place. Dad got sick, so after that we all went back to the hotel. The next day Roger met Amber at the bus station, and they walked around while the rest of the family went up and down on an incline (a little tram that takes up straight up and down a mountain). We all met Mary and Co. at the hotel then off to a late lunch at a Japanese Steakhouse - it was good. But with ten of us, it was crowded and impersonal.
Thats about when we went to see Rogers play, the reason we were all there in the first place. The New Works film festival put it one with two other one acts.
I've read his play, so it was nothing new. To be honest, it wasn't really cast well. Alright, it was cast downright badly. I don't want to go into detail about why I didn't like the casting, but they didn't fit. The next play was awful, about lecherous teachers and ghost, and - oh god - they freely talked about the Scottish play (that is, Macbeth). Being in theater, this was scary as hell.
The third play was amazingly well done. At the beginning the director came out, saying that they had to do a day-before change of cast, and they this new guy hadn't yet memorized all his lines. The show is a couple fighting, ten minutes in someones phone in the audience goes off. The guy answers it! The new cast member stops the show, walks over and tells the guy to leave. He leaves loudly, the rest of the audience boos him, and the show goes on. Until a girl walks in from the lobby and starts yelling that that guy took her part, the director comes out and there is a big fight. Soon, actors start quitting during the show, until it becomes just the director and the understudy playing the part of the couple. Only at bows do people find out that it has all been staged, even the cellphone guy.
The most uncomfortable play ever.
That was my weekend. Its been a trip.
For one, I found out my boyfriend has been moved to Canada, and is now going to school at UOttawa. This is pretty devastating, but there is good news. He comes to visit twice a month, and the semester ends in December (when, hopefully, he moves back in with his dad) - so he will only be gone four months. Four very long months.
The next day I got taken out of school to drive to Pittsburgh. We picked up Roger and the grandparents at the airport and went out to a bad Italian place. Dad got sick, so after that we all went back to the hotel. The next day Roger met Amber at the bus station, and they walked around while the rest of the family went up and down on an incline (a little tram that takes up straight up and down a mountain). We all met Mary and Co. at the hotel then off to a late lunch at a Japanese Steakhouse - it was good. But with ten of us, it was crowded and impersonal.
Thats about when we went to see Rogers play, the reason we were all there in the first place. The New Works film festival put it one with two other one acts.
I've read his play, so it was nothing new. To be honest, it wasn't really cast well. Alright, it was cast downright badly. I don't want to go into detail about why I didn't like the casting, but they didn't fit. The next play was awful, about lecherous teachers and ghost, and - oh god - they freely talked about the Scottish play (that is, Macbeth). Being in theater, this was scary as hell.
The third play was amazingly well done. At the beginning the director came out, saying that they had to do a day-before change of cast, and they this new guy hadn't yet memorized all his lines. The show is a couple fighting, ten minutes in someones phone in the audience goes off. The guy answers it! The new cast member stops the show, walks over and tells the guy to leave. He leaves loudly, the rest of the audience boos him, and the show goes on. Until a girl walks in from the lobby and starts yelling that that guy took her part, the director comes out and there is a big fight. Soon, actors start quitting during the show, until it becomes just the director and the understudy playing the part of the couple. Only at bows do people find out that it has all been staged, even the cellphone guy.
The most uncomfortable play ever.
That was my weekend. Its been a trip.
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