April 2nd! (life events + rants)

play plot:

I went to the production Blithe spirit, which is a play about a couple who start with speaking about a woman, Elvira, who is the ex wife to the husband. She died young 7 years before present time. That same day the couple had invited over a married couple and a psychic medium. To them she is just a crazy old lady who they invited over to judge so the husband, charles can write about a psychic in his book. They go a seance and during it, charles doesn't take it seriously, as a result he accidentally called upon his ex wife and she is summoned to live in the house with charles and his current wife. Elvira is a mischievous young woman and when she appears charles freaks out and she thinks hes gone mad. When speaking with ruth, charles wife, Elvira speaks to charles and in result he tells her to shut up. Ruth gets mad and is upset with him and heads off to bed. Charles sleeps downstairs on the couch, leaning against Elvira. The ghost of his ex wife misses him and wishes to bring him to the afterlife with her in order to stay with him forever, in result she accidentally kills ruth with the car, that was meant to be set for charles. In the end, the housemaid is seen to have some form of psychic powers and casts the 2 spirits away. Although they never leave and the play ends with charles angering his wives in order to check that they are still there. the visuals were amazing on that part! the last scene of the play he jumps over the balcony to run away and get away from his now ex wives. 

rant section:

Did I enjoy this play? yes! very much, it was sooo cool. Did I wish it was more interesting? also yes, sadly the play was 3 hours and we only got a 15 minute intermission. I was very upset with the audience.

I was already anxious when we got there, we got back row seats meaning we wouldn't be able to hear or see the play as well, I didn't mind all that much. It became an issue when I realized it was completely impossible to hear the actors when people in the audience were speaking/laughing/clapping. Yes it is a comedy, which means it is okay to laugh, but what is NOT okay is laughing for too long and then turning to your friends to then talk about it. Reacting audibly is completely fine, but audience members took up to 15 seconds to recover at times and actors were getting CLEARLY annoyed. people were speaking during the production and oh lord you guys are NOT ready for this.

I was told other schools were going to be watching the play as well, I assumed it would be highschoolers rather than middleschoolers, which in my experience, are VERY disrespectful during plays. I was very nervous once I recognised the lack of fashion sense and height of the people being seated below. Based on how they dressed and where they were sitting, the front row students were clearly private students. The row behind them were louder and wore less expensive clothing, which if was the public middleschool students. Oh lord they kids were assholes T_T

my tear, the top, had students in middleschool as well and they had bad edict as well. more on that later!

during the seance the medium stood up on a stool and held her hands out to the audience, she said the lines "is there anyone there?", in context, she is NOT speaking to the crowd, this was directly spoken to the spirits of the house, which she was attempting to contact. How did the crowd react? by fucking answering her. students said "yes" some said "no", most students weren't just speaking, they were yelling. If you've ever been in theatre, the audio level they used was around the one you use when your projecting. She spoke the lines "is there anyone there?" a few times, not to egg on the crowd but because it was her fucking lines. I kid you not, the last line where she repeats this in the seance a student from the back of the middle section of the floor YELLED. and i fucking mean yelled, like the type of yell when a person cups their hands around their mouth and screams as loud as they can. oh lord i was mad, and so were the actors, it was so clear to me and it upset me sooo much.

teachers did NOTHING, they didn't tell them to shut up, they didn't help at all. it made me SO fucking mad. being in theatre myself, especially a highschool theatre, I know how it feels for audience to interrupt the show. Although im not an actor, im tech, it still is clearly frustrating to the actors. its hard to act when someone shouts and when people clap at bad times, and it's annoying too. Nearing the end of the first half before intermission, actors on stage were very clearly getting annoyed with how the people were acting there. Yes in plays actors pause to let people laugh in plays, you should not be talking after a funny part, you laugh and you move on. actors would have to wait an extra 5 seconds after for people to stop laughing/speaking, which yeah 5 seconds isnt much, but they usually dont even wait 5 seconds its like a 3 second pause and then the play goes on. i just KNOW they were complaining when they were off set, i just KNOW. 

I mentioned clapping at bad times? what do i mean by this? wellll... there was a character, who was put in for comedy, she is the house maid to the couple, she is clumsy and she speaks fast and high. She is meant to be funny yes, and within our audience, she became a veryyy quick fan favourite, as she crossed the stage when the curtain was down and she says "yes mum!" very fast and many many times, half of her lines are yes mum. When she would appear on set people would clap, even cheer. which, if you dont know theatre edict, you never fucking cheer or even clap if a person walks on or off the stage or if a person did a good job. you save your claps and cheers for the end.

TALKING. OH MY FUCKING GOD. DO NOT. EVER. EVER. HAVE SIDE CONVOS IN THE FUCKING THEATRE. HOLY SHIT. some people were talking that were speaking at FULL speaking volume??? at a fucking play??? you couldnt find a better place to talk about your stupid game. the boys in front of me, 2 rows away, were talking about pokemon. a person 3 seats down from me was talking during the play and making stupid comedic remarks on certain parts to his friends. im glad your enjoying but please for the love of god, shut the fuck up. when you make a joke about the play to your friend, your friend then laughs, then responds and maybe you respond back to that and thats end of convo. that is extremely distracting with just 2 people alone. these people were in friend groups together. There were like 5-7 people around them and they were all at some point making a stupid joke and remember the 2 person scenario? okay well no imagine that with 6 people. one person makes a joke, EVERYONE LAUGHS and then a few people remark or add on, if they add onto it then more laughter and more remarks. they take longer to stop talking and its SO annoying. the students below me were in a friendgroup of 4 and talking about fucking pokemon and also remarking on the play. a student had some form of food or something from intermission and was THROWING it at his friends??? whatttt!!! WHY??? for gods sake why on earth would you think thats a good idea????

worst part is, there were about 5 groups of people from my school who were talking during the play. there were 2 students who were friends, guess fucking what, they are in the play my theatre is currently fucking working on. they are literally actors in the theatre and SOMEHOW, they have no decency? i was fine with them ngl, cuz they only spoke like 10 times ish throughout the play but oh my gyatt. i almost wanna name drop because of how mad i was. a boy from my theatre class, was in the group of 5-7 students who were talking, i work with him EVERYDAY for theatre and somehow, this imbecile of a man has bad manners about theatre?? THEATRE?? THE THINK YOU COME TO SCHOOL AN HOUR AND A HALF EARLY FOR???? UGH.

before and after (bus+before+some more ranting):

I woke up at 7:08 and got ready at 7:15, for context, school starts at 9, but my first period class (theatre) starts at 7:30-7:40 (soft start), I have to leave my house by like 7:20-7:32, but this morning we left at 7:36, but somehow i still made it. Even though it snowed BAD last night and my mom was taking pictures of the roads while she was driving T_T i showed up late, but i made it before attendance because my teacher was doing something, i forgot. anyways he made me work in the green room >:(

basically the green room is this nasty ass cramped room filled with costumes and props, and i mean FILLED, its a complete mess. you cant even walk in the green room T_T i was in there looking for jewellery and trinkets for a prop list that is named in the play we are doing, midsummers night dream, egeus has lines where he talks about how lysander tricked hermia into loving him with trifles and other things. He says stuff about nosegays and sweetmeats, anyways they want to have a bag that the actor takes out and throws at the other actors (as proof/emphasis i guess). i mean its an okay idea, its taking the text very literally and seems kinda strange in some contexts, as why would egeus have the sweetmeats, you would assume they would have been eaten. also after that scene we have to do a set change, which means picking up jewellery and little rocks off the ground, we could get a large broom but we have stage mics and they will pick up the sounds of the jewellery moving and being sweeped away. what i mean by broom is those HUGE one that janitors use to sweep up paper in hallways so they dont have to pick it up by hand. its whatever, its what he has me on to do so </3

anyways the green room is the fucking worst, its so awful omggg. it smells weird, its like starchy smelling, it makes me feeling a boiled potato. theres so much stuff in there and all the fabric is annoying, i struggle with it because all the textures are so weird. its so dusty in there it literally hurts your eyes to be in there and some people get sore throats. anyways i had to spend the whole period there :c 

after theatre i went to my locker and then my first period class to alert my teacher of my departure, she was a little upset by me leaving because she likes me but also i work in a group with 2 other boys, who get into too much trouble. one of which is my now ex boyfriend, who i broke up with on march 31st after he s*xually assulted/r*ped me on the 30th. The other person is his friend, who is an indian boy who says the nword and is wayyy to confident with himself. i have to keep them under control and the other person my teacher assigned to help keep the boys working wasnt there. I left class and went to our cafeteria to get a $2 coffee, btw it tasted like dirty water, it was so bad. The office lady calls down students to go to the band doors to go to  the bus, im like the 3rd person there and im immediately checked in and i go out to the bus, disgusting coffee in hand.

I grab the railing that helps disabled students into the bus so i can get onto the bus and im met with the bus driver who before i even get out is talking, i didnt know he was talkign to me and then i realised he was as i was about to put one foot into the bus. this old ass hag who looked like he had a brain tumor and 4 different stds is fucking getting mad at me for something??? he looks me dead in the face and goes "you damn kids, why do you people always think you can bring shit like that on the bus?" and i look at him and just go "what?" and he goes "your drink, you kids always spill it everywhere and litter, i dont know why you would even bring that" so im fucking mad cuz what are you gonna do??? make me dump it out??? and i might have sounded a little bitchy but i was pissed and i just said "i just bought this?" and he was like "well then its more likely to spill" and he kinda stopped talking at that point cuz i was already walking past him, i literally spoke and got on anyways, cuz i know DAMN WELL more people will have coffees. just to let you know, its fucking 9 in the morning??? you should expect every teacher boarding the bus to have a coffee and at least 5 other students with them. stupid asshole >:(

and then he said we couldnt open the windows, which i thought was reasonable cuz it was snowing outside and it was cold, but then i took it back the moment i started actually sweating from being in that bus. dude it was so hot in there it felt like a furnace, it was so hot condensation was building up on the windows and dripping down, not just the windows too, the WALL. my arm got wet.

anyways my friend sat down and he let me try his coffee, and oh my gyatt, i took a sip of mine after that and it almost hurt to drink. it tasted okay before and then after drinking from his i was scared to learn mine tasted like fermented water. he gave me his drink and i drank both mine and his before we got into the city lmao T_T i took photos of him when we got there and i texted my ex a little (we are on good terms dw!) and i explained to my friend why most people in my grade hate him, he was also curious on what happened between me and him, i dont mind telling people myself, i would rather it be heard from me than from a rumour.

on the way back me and finn talked about this guy i dont like, hes annoying. i dont wanna go into much detail because im so tired and also if i go on a rant about this, this entry will be like 10,000 words and im already at like 2500. holy fuck i just wrote an entire like 3 paragraphs and accidentally closed the tab so it didnt save T_T

anyways we disguised how much of math we would miss, it was 30 minutes. i was talking about how much i hate my math teacher in those past paragraphs but im so defeated by the fact that it didnt save so im not sure if ill talk about it. basically i said that she doesnt teach us stuff and puts questions on the test we havent learned. she literally put a question on a test from material we didnt learn yet, we ended up learning that material the next day and the whole class was like "im so cooked". I WONDER WHY. the success rate of that question was like 3% istg, im guess one person got it right, barely. one time we did a test on RADICALS. she put pythagorean theorem on the test. ON THE RADICALS TEST?? THE TEST THAT ISNT ON PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM??? ugh it made me so mad. anywasys we show up 30 minutes late and they are doing a quiz, i thought i was free cuz i came late but she made us take the quiz in a separate room >:( i finished it super fast, it was wayyy too easy so i dont think im gonna get a good grade. whenever you think it was easy, you got a 50%.

i was so mad that she made me do that cuz i literally had nothing, no pencils, no calculator, no earser, NOTHING. she took my entire bag in trade for a pencil and calculator. um die???

RANT IS FINALLY OVER!!! WOOHOOO!!

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