On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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me, in tight white pants, on stage.....when I was 15 or 16, my class was doing a play.
We where playing the story of Marie Antoinette
and Axel von Fersen (The queens swedish
loverboy who got stomped to death by an angry mob).
For some reason I cannot remember now I got the
role of Axel. Don't think I had any say in the matter
as my teacher was a bit of a crazy bitch.
Anyway, we had to come up with costumes for this ordeal and the school had most of the stuff we needed. But they did not have any historicly accurate trousers. My teacher came up with the idea that I should wear my tight, white american football trousers (I played American football for a number of years).
Aparently she thought they looked a bit like those white/beige knee length trousers Axel is wearing in some painting. I objected, she wouldn't listen.
all I can say is, thank god we only did one show for a few other classes in the school.
Still felt like a tit standing there with frilly shirt, black vest, powdered wig, ugly shooes and my tight white (aparently a bit see through at the right angle) trousers.
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