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HOW TO ANNOY YOUR DRAMA TEACHER/DIRECTOR:
Now here are some things that are guaranteed to annoy your drama teacher and/or Director – I know that most of these annoyed mine. (Careful, some of these might get you kicked out of class/rehearsal). If you have anything to add to this list, please e-mail us at young.performer.workshop@juno.com
- Hide the props [especially the important props].
- Deny the existence of Shakespeare.
- When he/she tells you that your improv is over, keep going.
- Act like you’re a 5 year old-trapped in a teenager’s body.
- Bring your own fan club to the performances and tell them to yell out your name every time you enter the stage.
- When told to practice your part with your partner play cards. When asked what you’re doing, tell the Director/Teacher that in a former-life your character was a compulsive gambler.
- Always use “my goldfish ate my script.”
- Walk into the house of the theatre late, while there is a performance going on, and say as loudly as you can, “Oops…Is there a show going on?
- Bring your script from the last show instead of the current one.
- Take your script and play soccer with it down the hallway. When the director/teacher asks what happened to your script (because it’ll be in a million pieces) tell her/him that you don’t know, you put it down for a minute and then you came back and it was like this. Then look pitiful and sad.
- Punctuate everything in your script with an exclamation mark.
- Pay extra-attention to the punctuation in the script and every time you get to a comma, count silently to 10 in you head, then go on with the dialogue.
- Highlight your lines in everyone’s script.
- Chew gum all of the time (yes, even on stage during rehearsals…doing it during performance is even better.)
- Bring food and drink to rehearsals and class. When you are asked to perform, bring them up with you. Whenever you hear your cue, be certain to have a full mouth.
- Shout out “Line!” during actual performances, when it isn’t even your line.
- Bring your pets to the audition and demand that they be given an audition and a fair chance to play a role in the production.
- Instead of memorizing your lines memorize Grateful Dead lyrics.
- Change your blocking every time you do a scene and insist it was your Director’s idea.
- When speaking your lines make obvious, unnecessary hand gestures. For example: whenever saying “I”, point to your eye, etc., etc.
- Walk on backwards for all of your entrances
- Pretend you can’t remember the difference between downstage and upstage and make this mistake frequently.
- Tell your Director that you think you should add a more “Melrose” approach to “The Diary of Anne Frank”.
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