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You hear the name Saint Monica's, and you automatically assume a nice, religious image full of nice people. As our two mini-buses pulled up outside, it appeared to be a nice school. We jumped out, eager, and were shown to the reception. Here, there were mounted crosses and even a framed photograph of someone shaking hands with the pope! Then assisted to the theatre, all I could think was how easy this would be.
We expressed a lot of interest in our surroundings, and warmed up, no-one was missing, it seemed to be going near perfect. Then we were told to go to the toilet if we needed it. Two mates and I went in one that positively reeked of pot. We got a lot of funny looks on the corridor trip back. But we weren't allowed back in to the theatre the way we left. We had to cut through the canteen. As We're walking through, I can't help but notice three guys giving evils.
"F***ing look at 'em. F***ing pr!cks!" could be heard, but I thought nothing of it.
"F***ing look at 'em in their f***ing scruffy, black shoes. F***ing scrubbers." My mates left me, but I wasn't standing for it. Automatic reaction, I turned around and went:
"You f***ing what, mate!?" We stared at each other. I couldn't hit him, I'd be thrown off the course, but he wouldn't come and hit me. I went back to the theatre.
Once we were performing, it seemed okay, but I could hear sniggers. A girl named Jaynie said her line, "Is my hair really that frizzy?" to which someone shouted back:
"Yeah, it is."
Then Jade, the largest member of the group stepped forward and delivered her bit. She bullies a girl who claims not to have eaten her sweets. As the bullied girl shouted "I never ate them," a wise-ass could be heard saying:
"No, but she did."
It was still a good performance, though, and we got back in the mini-buses. Neither would start for atleast fifteen minutes. We then discovered that some cocky b@st@rds had unplugged our fuel cables.
1:00pm - Second School
A great audience but a wooden performance, people kept slipping up, and we got such a rollocking afterwards.
I shall post each day's performances in this thread for the next two weeks.
And tomorrow, we're back at Derby, followed by Tottington - so MEH!
10:15am - 7th Performance So Far
Elton High School had the same atmosphere as Derby. Only instead of a quiet audience who were too shy to ask questions, we got a bunch of bullies. Words like "GEEK!" and even "W**ker!" could be heard. Someone even shouted "You are!" when a cast member asked "Who's the ugliest of them all."
And to me it was all very ammusing. I did a big line mess-up when someone failed to say their line before it. But who can blame 'em, when she'd just done that thing where you swallow your sick? Either way, it made me chuckle, and it was a really good performance.
11:45am - 8th Performance So Far
Same school, new audience, just as cocky. An even better performance despite the sniggers. There's no greater thrill than doing a flip spot-on or ad-libbing.
We left the school and someone shouted at my mate Liam who used to go there, "LIAM'S GAY!" While I'm aware that means nothing to you, you'd have been cracking up if you were there.
1:30pm - 9th Performance So Far
Back at Wood Hey, which went mint last Tuesday. Mint again, best performance of today, with a mint audience. I can't complain, and it helps that everyone was showering me in attention 'cos yesterday was my eighteenth birthday. Rock on!
They want to teach us about glue-sniffing or something.