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Posted By: Gaafa
Subject: What were about?
Date Posted: 7/12/09 at 12:02am

What makes you be with a drama group?

Is it how professional they are?

How social they are?

Because there's single men/women in it?

Because of the show they do?

Because your other half is in it?

Because they are the only one?

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Joe
Western Gondawandaland
turn right @ Perth.
Hear the light & see the sound.
Toi Toi Toi Chookas {{"chook [chicken] it is"}
May you always play
to a full house}

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Posted By: belle
Date Posted: 7/12/09 at 1:35pm

It gives me a creative outlet.

Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 7/13/09 at 12:26pm

Unisex dressing rooms!

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Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: Tallsor
Date Posted: 7/14/09 at 11:26am

"What makes you be with a drama group?" Do you mean what makes me be with a SPECIFIC drama group (i.e., versus another group), or what makes me be in theatre overall?

If it's the first, if it's a group I'm familiar with, it's because I've heard they are easy-going, open to new ideas (i.e., they're willing to try something even if it's against 'tradition'), treat everyone the same (i.e., they don't give preferential treatment to specific board members), and are the type of people I would want to hang around for 4-6 weeks on a show.

Posted By: Rorgg
Date Posted: 7/15/09 at 11:52am

I'm still relatively new -- I've done 4 shows on this incarnation, with 3 different groups, and I'm expecting to go out for a show with yet another group in a month or so.

So far, it's simply who's putting on a show that I'd like to be in, and that's a pretty easy formula too: it's got a part that fits at least moderately well and it's a show I'd like to see myself. If I'm going to be working it for at least two months, I want something I'll enjoy.

Posted By: falstaff29
Date Posted: 7/19/09 at 12:45pm

Originally posted by Gaafa

What makes you be with a drama group?

Is it how professional they are?

How social they are?

Because there's single men/women in it?

Because of the show they do?

Because your other half is in it?

Because they are the only one?

All of the above, maybe? I'll take them one by one.

1. Professionalism counts for a lot with me. I take a lot of pride in my own work, and I don't like shows where directors or co-stars really don't respect my time or their own product.

2. As far as being social, I'm one of those work-hard, play-hard types. The best theater groups I've worked with (one in particular, I can think of...) really give me a workout as an actor, but also are full of people who it's fun to hang out with.

3. I tend to be pretty uninhibited as an actor, and I enjoy hanging out with others who are like that. If, as it not infrequently does, it leads to some "fooling around" between scenes, so much the better. But I try to avoid getting serious with co-stars (or production staff, for that matter). That never ends well.

4. If a theater group among my "regulars" is doing a show I particularly like or don't, that might make me more or less likely to audition for that show, but I can't think of any instances where I've gone to a completely new theater group simply because they're doing a show I like. I tend to expand my list of regular companies based on where my favorite (by which I mean most-talented) co-stars are branching out to.

5. I've moved around here and there, and sometimes this has been the case. I used to be in a region with a more active community theater scene. Now, I tend to work with the same limited companies, even though they're not my ideal, because I don't care enough to travel further to work with the companies I'd really like to.