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the leading player and the ensemble @ pippin at the end
i’m doing great why do you ask
I do technical theater, and use the internet a decent amount. So naturally I scroll through theater content on the internet and something I come across a fair amount is this fake perception that actors and techs have some sort of antagonistic conflict driven relationship, which I personally have not found to be true. While sometimes we can get on each other’s nerves, I’ve only ever encountered a few actors who are constantly pricks towards techs, and none of the techs I know actually hate actors. So to help cultivate a better relationship between techs and actors here are
Things techs want to tell actors but don’t because most of us are big balls of anxiety
If we sound angry at you while doing our job, I can almost guarantee we are not, and are just in a rush so we come off as terse.
We do fuck up, and when we do, we absolutely recognize that it inconveniences you. Sorry… 😬
(For theaters/companies where techs put on mics rather than actors putting mics on themselves) During these situations, our number one goal is to make y’all feel safe and comfortable. The process can be awkward, and we try our hardest to reduce that awkward as much as possible.
When y’all do a good job on stage, we can tell and ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. Hit that note in the one song? There’s at least one tech silently cheering in the wings. Nailing the heart-wrenching dramatic scene? At least one tech is given chills by the acting. Dancing your heart out? At least one tech is off stage celebrating the scene with our…often lackluster…dance skills.
When you give us chocolate it absolutely makes out day. Your kindness has absolutely not gone unappreciated.
Your job is massively difficult, and we understand that. Keep going and we’ll do what we can to make it easier.
TLDR: Actors, your techs love you, keep going!
Zine Time 📜📜 The short story “A Job Is a Job” is available as a print zine right here.
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thinking about this again
Whenever I try to explain Repo! The Genetic Opera to someone, I’m just like “it’s a really pointed commentary on capitalism and medicine as a for-profit industry, with about 50,000 gallons of fake blood and, um, also it’s a musical? made by the producers of Saw?” like just watch this movie, I can not describe it, but it is an Experience and also Paris Hilton is in it and her face falls off, please this is one of my favorite movies.
Made by the DIRECTOR of Saw II, no less! And Paul Sorvino is in it! The lead is the girl from Spy Kids! Anthony Stewart Head, singing, constantly!
There’s a scene where one of main characters runs through his house surrounded by holographic ghosts of his dead wife singing about how he’s trying his best. There’s an entire song that seems to be dedicated to finding things to rhyme with “anatomy”. Paris Hilton is the only one who’s not always dressed in full goth get up, and most of her costumes are just clothes she already owned. The basic premise of the movie is that if you’re in debt, companies can claim repossession of your organs. I cannot describe this movie please just watch Repo Genetic Opera
I think my absolute favorite part of Repo! The Genetic Opera is how nothing has anything to do with genetics.
#…okay that last part is not entirely true #shilo has been led to believe she has an inherited disease #there’s a whole song that explicitly points this out #so there’s… that… #but it’s not so prominent a theme I would STICK IT IN THE TITLE #just… y'know if it were up to me… (via @taibhsearachd)
iirc, a lot of the ensemble cast were dressed in clothes from Hilton’s own closet and is especially apparent during ‘Zydrate Anatomy’ cause that’s how shoe string the budget on this movie was and she offered. Also the Best Character is just called the Grave Robber, which is, just, the fucking best
AND THE MUSIC FUCKS
The fact that this is addressed to the parents, not the kids, is especially creepy?
Anyway, Federal Child Labor Laws: (apply to ALL states)
--Children under 14 (13 for agricultural labor) can only be employed by their own parents/guardians
--14-15 year olds are limited to 3 hours per day, 18 hours per week during the school year (up to 8 hours on weekends/holidays), and 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week when school is not in session.
--They are also limited to working 7am-7pm (or 9pm during the summer), and only outside of school hours
--Only a specific list of jobs are permitted for children of this age (relevant to this, they are allowed to reheat food, wash dishes and equipment, and do some limited cooking/food prep such as washing vegetables). Any work outside this list is prohibited.
--There is also a broad list of jobs/duties they are prohibited from (including any work with ladders, or work with powered meat slicers or several types of powered baking equipment)
--Oh, hey, this is interesting! The federal minimum wage for employees under the age of 20 is $4.25 for the first 90 days they hold a job. I wonder how many days fall between the end of the school year and the start of the next. Oh? Just about 90? What an odd coincidence, that this company would be looking to hire children just before the time of year when they can work (a) later hours (b) more hours per week and (c) likely to need to stop before they get shifted to the full minimum wage.
(An entirely different set of rules apply to agricultural work, and for working directly for one's parents or family. There are also some jobs allowed to children under 14. I'm not going into those.)
Now, I'm not opposed to 14 and 15 year olds working appropriate jobs. I babysat at that age, other kids mowed lawns, raked leaves, life guarded at pools, etc.
But there is something a little predatory about this sign, particularly going up now.
And as people have pointed out, kids that age don't know their rights. They don't know the laws. And even if they do, they don't know that the laws are there to *protect* them. I've known plenty of teenagers who think they boss is *doing them a favor* by allowing them to work outside their limited hours, or continue working while clocked out for their lunch break. When I worked as a waitress, my manager suggested this as a way to earn extra tips. Heck, I was almost THIRTY, and you wouldn't believe how many little ways they tried to wriggle around the rules to get a little more work out of me. (Unless you've worked this kind of job, then you'd absolutely believe it.)
Another thing--these jobs are *exhausting.* I've worked manual labor, I've worked in schools, retail, all kinds of jobs, but nothing made me end the day, back throbbing, fling-myself-into-bed tired like working in a restaurant. I don't know what it is, maybe the hectic pace of the busy hours, maybe the way you're expected to be busy every second of your time there, maybe it's the fact that I spent most of each day walking as fast as I could from one end of the building to the other. I don't know. But I wouldn't wish that on any 14-year-old.
So, anyway, I'm looking at this little flyer, and I'm concerned. Not because I don't think a 14-year-old should ever work. But because I'm trying to think why a BK would put out a sign SPECIFICALLY asking for the youngest age they can employ, with NO details suggesting this is a special youth-support or training program, only A FEW WEEKS before summer vacation, and targeted to their PARENTS who, let's face it, are probably eager to get some time away from the kids after the last year.
Why would any business make this SPECIFIC ad? I don't know, but every answer I come up with doesn't sit well with me.
With the current shortage of adults willing to work an exhausting job at a non-living wage, they are looking for anyone else they can exploit. A business should be considered failing if it can’t pay its adult employees enough to get by.
Also relevant: these kids are almost certainly not vaccinated, and its extremely clear they will not be protected, especially as places relax mask mandates. In 2020 being a line cook was the most dangerous job in the country, the conditions that caused that danger haven't changed. This will get some of these kids killed.
Oh hey, remember this post?
holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. signal boosting! This is so fucked up
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At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job. At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.
At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school. At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.
At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker. At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.
Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it.
Never tell yourself you missed your chance.
Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough.
You can do it. Whatever it is.