>>16406593I chose theatre because I'd been doing it all through high school and it was something I enjoyed. I enjoyed actually acting rather than anything else about it, which I think is a mistake. If you can't deal with theatre people but like theatre itself, take a different major.
I quit because I got really burned out one semester. We had just got through with a big show (Pentecost, if you're familiar with it. I was Raif) and I should have taken a break, but I didn't. I got into Uncle Vanya and the director was terrible and I was getting gradually more fed up with it so I just dropped the major. I ended up just switching it to a minor and dropping out of the show. It was easier because I was double majoring in literature and theatre, so I could just switch to lit and not worry about it.
I go to Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. It's not a very good school but they give me quite a bit of money to go there. I'm a junior now so I was studying for a solid two years. I count the semester I dropped because I still took all of the theatre classes I signed up for, I just wasn't a major any more.
For me my choices of major were very much a follow your dreams sort of thing. I'm a pretty unusual theatre major in that I hate people, and I really hate theatre people. I don't have very many friends here at uni and I don't mind, but it's not a lifestyle that's compatible with theatre. I also have no real ambitions, so it wasn't a big deal going into literature and theatre in the first place. My parents are paying for college for me so I won't have any debt; if I had I would have gone in for something that actually makes money.
I don't plan on working in theatre but I'm not opposed to it. I don't think I could act for a living, though. I think I'm good enough to do so (and that's an honest self-assessment, I'm not trying to be vain) but it's an incredibly stressful lifestyle and it's not one I would enjoy. (continued)
