'K & I' sackings
Sun, 24 Oct 2004, 10:28 pmWalter Plinge8 posts in thread
'K & I' sackings
Sun, 24 Oct 2004, 10:28 pmHi,
I've been reading some of the posts made by Joe and several other people regarding the 'K & I' understudy sackings. I'm not sure if you're aware but Justin Freind hasn't been the lead role for Luntha for very long. I was sacked about a month ago from lead role as Luntha and found out then that Justin had been replaced as lead role.
I'm 17 years old finishing year 12 TEE in Kelmscott. I spent 72 hours and a lot of money driving to bloody carlisle for rehearsals and having said that my TEE will suffer because of this experience.
I've discovered recently that the understudies were sacked over the phone. I'm not sure how you all took it at the time but when i was told in person i was shocked for 3 days. I too don't understand why proffessional performers are in a voluntary production and fortunately have had the support of my family to pry information from Marcus Stafford (He proudly calls himself the "CEO of the MS Society!") and came to our own conclusion quite some time ago that the goings on of this production have been far from a coincidence.
Interestingly enough I was one of the first, if not THE FIRST lead role to be cast in this production, that is, everyone else from my knowledge was still attending call-backs.
Odd how 4 or 5 weeks before opening night they suddenly changed their view on my acting ability in a 85% singing role.
Kind Regards,
Trent Laurenson
I've been reading some of the posts made by Joe and several other people regarding the 'K & I' understudy sackings. I'm not sure if you're aware but Justin Freind hasn't been the lead role for Luntha for very long. I was sacked about a month ago from lead role as Luntha and found out then that Justin had been replaced as lead role.
I'm 17 years old finishing year 12 TEE in Kelmscott. I spent 72 hours and a lot of money driving to bloody carlisle for rehearsals and having said that my TEE will suffer because of this experience.
I've discovered recently that the understudies were sacked over the phone. I'm not sure how you all took it at the time but when i was told in person i was shocked for 3 days. I too don't understand why proffessional performers are in a voluntary production and fortunately have had the support of my family to pry information from Marcus Stafford (He proudly calls himself the "CEO of the MS Society!") and came to our own conclusion quite some time ago that the goings on of this production have been far from a coincidence.
Interestingly enough I was one of the first, if not THE FIRST lead role to be cast in this production, that is, everyone else from my knowledge was still attending call-backs.
Odd how 4 or 5 weeks before opening night they suddenly changed their view on my acting ability in a 85% singing role.
Kind Regards,
Trent Laurenson
Re: making misteaks
Thu, 28 Oct 2004, 10:06 pmthe meddoes wrote:
> Lisle Jones, former Head of Acting at WAAPA (and my all-time
> favourite acting teacher), used to say (and no doubt still
> does), "Make mistakes by all means... just don't make them
> twice."
Mistakes are good, we can learn from them and make progress - so long as steps are immediately taken to correct them, as soon as they're recognised.
No point encouraging someone to make a mistake (even only once) if they quit where they are having still made the mistake.
We can forgive any new producer for not getting things perfect. I think most of the upset here lately has been because there seemed to be no attempt to make amends.
Cheers,
Craig
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> Lisle Jones, former Head of Acting at WAAPA (and my all-time
> favourite acting teacher), used to say (and no doubt still
> does), "Make mistakes by all means... just don't make them
> twice."
Mistakes are good, we can learn from them and make progress - so long as steps are immediately taken to correct them, as soon as they're recognised.
No point encouraging someone to make a mistake (even only once) if they quit where they are having still made the mistake.
We can forgive any new producer for not getting things perfect. I think most of the upset here lately has been because there seemed to be no attempt to make amends.
Cheers,
Craig
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