A twenty-something student teacher college graduate; Education; Theatre Arts; Social Studies; Grades 7-12; Trying to find a school to hire me!
Things are just falling apart…
The play I am directing with my 9-12 Drama class is falling to pieces. And it’s all because one person in the cast is not holding up his end of the deal. Today, I told the entire cast that if this one person does not get their act together, then I will have to cancel the show. This person has until Wednesday. Tickets are going on sale on Monday next week and I refuse to sell a single person a single ticket to the show when it is in the condition it is in…
This one person only has about 25% of their lines memorized and I cannot replace him because he is the one rare character that really cannot be played by anyone else in the cast…and I cannot move people in and out of parts this close to performance.
My host teacher keeps trying to assure me that I did everything I could do in this situation, but I still think I messed up somewhere. I’m trying not to show it around my students, but I am about this close to spending the night rolled up in my comforter, eating Gummy Bears and Worms, and watching some Breaking Bad/The Hunger Games trailer over and over and over.
I do not like feeling like I failed…
