Why am I a theatre major when I hate hearing other theatre majors talk?

[Tweed]

I'm in the same office as two theatre majors that are talking about costumes. Nauseating is a good word for it.

Thank God I'm a theatre management major and will be on the business side of things. The poly-sci major too so hopefully I'll be in all fund raising regardless of theatre or politics.

[Longgrain]

1. When I was an art major

I always hated over hearing other students talk about art. Especially if I knew nothing about what they were talking about.

[Tweed]

3. Or if they don't know what they are talking about?

Or if it sounds like they are talking about dress up instead of a work of art?

[Longgrain]

9. Most it was snooty bragging type talk...

:Nose in the air/ pinkie out:

"You possibly cahn't be serious. Monet was nothing but a second-rate art impersonator. You'd know what I mean if you've ever actually examined one of his painting up close."

Sickening stuff.

[Tweed]

11. That's absurd

Monet rules. What would they say of your painting you have in your posts?

[Longgrain]

13. I had mostly good critiques

and supportive professors so I can't complain, but I did have one critique In which the "frustrated art professor" told me my paintings were "Careless" and "Non professional"...

I eventually had to ask him if there was anything good about my paintings.

:grr:

[skypilot]

2. At one point in my life...

...I thought about studying fashion design. I still kinda want to design men's shoes but the thought of having to interact with "fashion" people just turns my stomach.

[Modem Butterfly]

5. You should try the buyers...

...Let me tell you, some of those folks are a few cruellers short of a baker's dozen.

[Patiod]

23. Ack! "Well, blue is very important this year....."

(had a friend who was in fashion merchandising and it made me crazy)

[skypilot]

26. Once went shoe shopping...

...(which I hate) and I go into this one store and can't find anything I like. On the way out I notice that several of their male mannequins have on some loafers that I really like. I ask if there is anyway that I could buy a pair (if they fit) since they were simply using the shoes to adorn the mannequins. The saleswoman tells me that they can't sell them to me because (and I quote), "Those shoes are two seasons out of style".

As if I give a shit!!!! If she'd have said that she couldn't sell them because she wouldn't know what to charge me, I'd have understood. But she wouldn't sell them to me because they were "out of style". I love the fact that she knew the exact number of seasons out of style that they were.

[Modem Butterfly]

4. EVERYONE hates hearing theatre majors talk

It's just one of those things. No one wants to hear from Engineering majors, either.

[MemphisTiger]

12. We're not as bad as math majors

[papau]

18. What did you say about math majors? - LOL :-) but seriously in management

there is no better background than one in acting!

If I could emote better I'd be rich!

:-)

[jswordy]

6. It's because you spell "theater" as "theatre"...a KNOWN CAUSE!!! n/t

[Tweed]

7. It helps to differentiate between film and live plays

Just a little tip for you

[jswordy]

28. Ooooh! And yer ARROGANT ABOUT IT, too! LOL

:headbang:

[Tweed]

29. No, just practical!

:hi:

[jswordy]

30. Yo, I'm just kiddin' around...

...but theater (theatre) troupes spell it both ways, dude.

(I wrote that with my pinkie fingers pointed upward.)

:beer:

[intheflow]

8. This is why I dropped my theater major.

And it wasn't just the talk. If one more person I barely knew and couldn't stand walked up and kiss-kissed me on the cheeks daaahling, they would have died and violent and bloody death.

I switched to Peace and Social Justice Studies. Infinitely more depressing, but reality-based and devoid of superficial love-fests. (Although, God knows, we have our own ego problems to deal with.)

[Tweed]

10. That's really interesting

I have an acting major friend who wants to pick up a minor in Peace and Social Justice Studies.

[intheflow]

31. Guerrilla Theater!

Tweed, I am ALL over theater majors getting involved in P&J! Part of what called me to theater in the first place was that theater (and all art) at its highest form can be used to enlighten society about social ills, and to criticize the social structures that perpetuate human suffering. I do believe this is why the RW guns down art and music classes in their first attacks on public education--art is too individualistic, encourages too much creative, non-structured thought. We obviously can't have that polluting our children's minds! (/off sarcasm)

As I've gotten older, I've become interested again in theater, but more-so in guerrilla theater. I really like what the anti-tobacco people have been doing in the streets, filmed and aired in their commercials. My favorite is the one where they have a person in a rat suit dying to promote the knowledge that many cigarettes have a form of rat poison in their ingredients.

I've seen great guerrilla street theater at pro-labor and anti-war protests. Michael Moore's series The Awful Truth was a form of guerrilla theater. And of course there's real theater, such as the Laramie Project that could be considered guerrilla theater.

So most excellent to you and your friend for understanding that theater can--and SHOULD--be combined with politics. Hurrah for the Tweedster!

[Placebo]

14. I think it's always like that...

I'm an English major but I hate hearing other English people talk, and when I was a Marketing major I hated hearing other marketing students blabbering, and now I'm taking a Digital Cinema class and everyone in that class who said they are DC majors just make me want to cry.

[Tweed]

22. LOL, Digital Cinema is a cool major

We have one at my school now too.

[Dookus]

15. I did drama all through High School

and fully planned to continue in college. Then I went to ONE audition my freshman year, and realized that college drama types consisted of the most annoying theater dweeb from every high school in the state.

And that's why I don't have an Oscar today.

[barb162]

16. Because people in the theater (BIG GENERALIZATION

HERE) tend to like to make entrances, be on stage, be the center of attention, etc. ????

[Placebo]

17. That's a damn good point.

This girl in my philosophy class is a theatre major to the max and has to tell us her life story every couple minutes and try and poorly link it somehow, someway, with the topic of discussion at hand. I know more about her life than I want to know! Like, her husband is a cop, and his nipples are pierced, and he used to have blue hair, and she doesn't like people who talk on the phone when they drive, and her parents are married but not in live, and so on, and so forth. Oh, and what her baby looks like...in the womb...because she reminds us that she's pregnant every 2 minutes. GAH!!!

[barb162]

20. I know a guy who is a director of a major theater in Chicago; known

him since I was six yrs. old. He and his wife, also in theater, have to be centers of attention even at family gatherings. They will do things like walk in late for Xmas dinner, holding everyone else up from eating, opening presents or grab bags, they'll do their damned histrionic arm-waving at stories that don't call for it, etc.

[u4ic]

19. I was a theatre major in university

and I'd say about 75% of them had no business being there. There was not enough discussion of theatre, and way, way too much about the party that night or assorted odds and ends that really showed their lack of commitment (as did their work). Too many thought it wasn't a real job, that you could get paid horking amounts of $$ to play around. Honestly.

Never got much of the "dahhhling" stuff, thank goodness.

[grace0418]

21. You're not alone

I shared space in a building that had a bunch of art studios for about 3 years. For some unexplicable reason, the building management decided to rent out one of the studios to a theater group who started putting on plays and acting as if they owned the whole building. They took all the available parking because the lot was intended for one or two artists per studio and the theater group had 20-25 people. They'd gather in a huge group outside the front door to smoke, and wouldn't get out of your way while you tried to squeeze by carrying a huge box of art supplies. They would take over the lobby area (where our mailboxes, message board, and front door was) for their "ticket booth" and then shush us when we walked in to use our studios and check our mail. It was maddening. But the worst was when we'd be in our studio trying to get work done and the Thespians would start loudly rehearsing in the hall outside our studio. I use the term rehearsing rather loosely because it was really more like 1 minute of rehearsal per 14 minutes of mean-spirited gossip with incredible amounts of detail. We asked them to stop so many times to no avail that we finally started blasting music at ungodly volume levels to drown them out or get them to leave.

I finally asked my brother (a professional actor) and my niece (an acting major) about this and they both agreed that many young actors are completely insufferable to be around.

[mitchum]

24. The same reason that I was an English/writing major...

who hated hearing other English/writing majors talk.
I hung out with the painters and historians because they NEVER wanted me to read their latest short story or poem. Just a lot of drinking and smoking :)

[Patiod]

25. My SO the actor is bearable, but when they're together

forget about getting a word in edgewise. We used to joke that if you used a translation machine, all that would come back would be "look at me!" "look at me!" "look at me!" (in stentorian tones)

Also, they all have their stock of little stories, and I've heard them all a million times (yes, Zac, you did tell me about the one where the phone rings and forgot your line so you handed it to someone else on stage and said "it's for you!")

On the other hand, his college friends talk about sports and have no idea what to say to women (other than "how 'bout those Eagles?") Whereas the theater people can talk politics, art, literature, etc. They're a lot more diverse than my college or work friends (most of my gay male and female friends are people I've met in the theater) and usually a pretty fun bunch.

I'm actually surprised how few are pretentious. But then again, all the really pretentious ones have probably headed out of town to NY or Hollywood...

[Tweed]

27. That's true

I can always handle actors one on one, but when they group together, it tends to be a problem. It's probably because they realize they don't have to be fake with me when we are talking one on one.