Community Theater Green Room Discussion Board: Anybody know about this "game" actors play onstage

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Originally posted by TonyDi

Just to CLARIFY - many of you have referred to a removed appendage if they did something that disrupts a show.  This largely is directed toward the male gender - and I'll grant that the majority of the screwing around that I've ever seen, comes from that segment. HOWEVER, I've worked with more than a few persons of the more gentle gender (you'd think) who were just as much a bad influence in getting someone else to screw things up or doing something themselves that was much too much game playing onstage, as any capable appendage holding gender (those with removable ones) had ever done.  Just trying to point out it isn't always the games that boys play - the gals do it too - and sometimes to a much greater degree.  I cannot begin to tell you how many times I've had to open a book, magazine, or newspaper only to find clip art from some females PLAYGIRL magazine!! So let's not always just blame the boys.  If you want equality ladies - by all means you get it in this regard as well - at least in MY experience that's been the case.  Fair is fair.  It has NO PLACE AT ALL in theater - boredom or not.  Zero Mostel for one was famous for that and he was a pain in the ass from all accounts because of it. But hey, he was ZERO MOSTEL.  Sorry - I don't get it.  And I NEVER EVER tolerate it if I'm director. Just no time for games when as a few have said, you have an audience who is paying money to see the performance. 

Just my opinion (and observation).

TonyDi

I think the reason they said this was not because they assumed it was gyus doing it but because it works better with the joke - the name of the game had the word 'penis' not 'penis' or 'girl parts'.

Anyhoo - In this situation I would also talk to the cast about how they could possibly have time to do this on stage.  Many young actors think that if they are nto saying a line that they are not acting - they need to be reminded that they are acting evrey second they are on that stage.

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