Have just been reading some of the threads, including the one started by Timo, and it struck me - as it so often does on this forum - that CCP members construct and inhabit a curious parallel universe:
i) on the hand, there is the view - both implicit and explicit - that those people who have attended drama school are convulsed by snobbery and a sense of superiority whenever they encounter an actor who hasn't;
ii) on the other, there is the demonstrable defensiveness and sense of inferiority exhibited on this site by those who DID attend drama school, because they are continually forced onto the defensive by precisely those attitudes outlined above.
Those of us who did attend drama school are told so often on this site to "get over" the fact, that I'm starting to feel that it's not actually our problem.
Or is that just my imagination?
All of the above is also symptomatic of another tendency I have noticed on this forum, which is the tendency constantly to try and find mechanisms and criteria by which we can all JUDGE each other's success or otherwise. The only possible valid criterion in such an exercise is one predicated on how often a given individual works professionally. BUT, having said that, it's simply not anyone else's place to judge in the first place, surely?
One has to confess there was alcohol involved... yet no capes or masks, unfortunately.
Thinking about Blake's posting though, perhaps theatre managers should start putting disclaimers on their programmes - "The Management cannot guarantee that you will be able to hear all of the dialogue in this play. However, hearing aids are available in the foyer."
I once did a play and was asked not to project as I was drowning out a couple of the other performers! You could barely hear them on stage never mind in the audience.
When I first read Blake's posting I thought it said 'milked'! Okay, I was drunk, but even with a hangover I still thought it said 'milked.' Maybe there's some kind of group parallax going on here...
Like you say, it does conjure a rather disconcerting image!
And as for being asked to turn your volume down, well, I know some theatre people can be sensitive, but that really takes the biscuit
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