Midsummers, week before fit up!

For the most part things aren’t too bad. The cast have realised they’re unsure about blocking, which means it’s getting changed (which is actually a good thing, because they kept doing different things to what I had written down – completely different) so they know what they’re doing. Olivia’s almost definitely back. I have a fairly good grasp of blocking now – if I do say so myself – and just have to tidy up my blocking a bit (not much point until we’ve gone over everything again).

However, one problem has been the child license. Mark told us around 3 or 4 weeks ago, at which point we were then told my Lynfryn that it takes around 7 weeks to go through. Mark refused to really listen to us about rehearsing as though he wouldn’t have the child (Finlay) then change it if we do get the license and started straight away as though Finlay would be in the show.

It’s now entirely down to whenever the council finish with it and I’ve just got an email asking to pretty much hurry up with it because we need it soon.

Kieron and I have told him numerous times now this week that this is not possible. It’s completely out of our hands now. Besides, it should be the director (not to mention member of staff) who applied in the first place.

There was also confusion with the courtyard of SYT, which has now been sorted, but I’ve asked Mairi to contact the builders to organise rehearsal times for tomorrow or Friday (most likely Friday) since we need written permission. Then Mark immediately organised a rehearsal for tomorrow morning.

I definetly told him that we needed written permission and most likely wouldn’t get it until Friday this morning.

This makes me wonder if I dont’ explain myself clearly, or if it’s just Mark that doesn’t listen. It could very well be that the way I explain things has to be done differently for Mark to understand them (I know this is sometimes the case with Emma and me). But it’s extremely annoying – especially considering the courtyard – that he’s basically not listening to higher authorities (which isn’t even me, it’s whoever organises health and safety regulations at SYT and whoever is our contact with the builders). If Mark actually stuck around for any length of time, I could possibly have meetings with him at the end of the day, but unfortunately, I’m always tidying and he’s always in a rush.

Upon starting this course, I was pretty certain that I wanted to DSM, and never wanted to stage manage. As it is, I’m actually looking forward to stage managing panto more than continuing to DSM this, and I’m starting to loose interest in the A3 show. I can only hope that a different director will make a difference, but now I think the role of DSM isn’t for me. I don’t have enough patience.