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Sometimes a Zombie's Just a Zombie
Apr. 11th, 2008 12:41 amToday was pretty damn sucky. No, today was...tiring.
I managed to turn in my play last weekend, and had an alright workshop on Tuesday, but my teacher has a big problem with my play because it doesn't endeavor to have a deep meaning behind what is basically a really fun, really funny, short play. So, after workshop, I didn't do any revision to it, since to me, it's in fine enough condition to show at the festival. The first thing that he asked me when he showed up today was:
Him:"so, do you have copies of your play?"
Me: "Um...no, you said you were going to make copies available.
Him:"You didn't send me a revision."
Me:"But...um...you didn't tell me I had to revise it"
Him:"Yes, you do."
So then he sent me to get copies of my play. Also! He made a flier for the Festival (where we're presenting our plays) with each of our plays, who they're by, and a short blurb describing what it's about. But...
THE BLURB HE WROTE FOR MY PLAY DOES NOT DESCRIBE MY PLAY.
He added in information that isn't in the play at all...like COMPLETELY CHANGING MY MAIN CHARACTER. What kind of teacher does that? He didn't even talk to me about it. So, now do I have to rewrite my play to match his fucking blurb? AAAAhhhggg. Part of me wants to just ignore it and go in a completely opposite direction just to spite him. Even so, there's no way that my main character is going to become what he wants it to be.
We were supposed to be casting for the festival today, but no actors showed up and the teacher flipped out and blamed all of it on us, and then left. Once he left, we cast the plays with people in the class, and read through the first two. People laughed a lot at my play, and many mentioned that they thought it was very good.
Honestly, I've seen hints of this personality in the teacher before, but not to such an extent. Tom, a classmate and sort-of friend of mine, said that the teacher had done that same sort of thing to him before. (He had a short story with zombies in it, and the teacher wanted the zombies to be used as a trope for some larger issue). He was just very...childish. So, now I have to stuff some fake meaning into my play to make it something that's suitable for him.
*headdesk*
I managed to turn in my play last weekend, and had an alright workshop on Tuesday, but my teacher has a big problem with my play because it doesn't endeavor to have a deep meaning behind what is basically a really fun, really funny, short play. So, after workshop, I didn't do any revision to it, since to me, it's in fine enough condition to show at the festival. The first thing that he asked me when he showed up today was:
Him:"so, do you have copies of your play?"
Me: "Um...no, you said you were going to make copies available.
Him:"You didn't send me a revision."
Me:"But...um...you didn't tell me I had to revise it"
Him:"Yes, you do."
So then he sent me to get copies of my play. Also! He made a flier for the Festival (where we're presenting our plays) with each of our plays, who they're by, and a short blurb describing what it's about. But...
THE BLURB HE WROTE FOR MY PLAY DOES NOT DESCRIBE MY PLAY.
He added in information that isn't in the play at all...like COMPLETELY CHANGING MY MAIN CHARACTER. What kind of teacher does that? He didn't even talk to me about it. So, now do I have to rewrite my play to match his fucking blurb? AAAAhhhggg. Part of me wants to just ignore it and go in a completely opposite direction just to spite him. Even so, there's no way that my main character is going to become what he wants it to be.
We were supposed to be casting for the festival today, but no actors showed up and the teacher flipped out and blamed all of it on us, and then left. Once he left, we cast the plays with people in the class, and read through the first two. People laughed a lot at my play, and many mentioned that they thought it was very good.
Honestly, I've seen hints of this personality in the teacher before, but not to such an extent. Tom, a classmate and sort-of friend of mine, said that the teacher had done that same sort of thing to him before. (He had a short story with zombies in it, and the teacher wanted the zombies to be used as a trope for some larger issue). He was just very...childish. So, now I have to stuff some fake meaning into my play to make it something that's suitable for him.
*headdesk*
