A Dog Eat Dog World

Rejection is not an easy thing to go through. In theater rejection is a very common thing. Actors have to go through this routine daily. It's either your too fat or too skinny, or too short or too tall. When auditioning you will get more no's than you will get yeses. Theater is a dog eat dog world. Everyone's always up against each other. This process is probably my least favorite of the theater.

Another difficult thing actors have to go through, is a little thing called "favoritism." This is very annoying when this happens. Sometimes your other fellow actors will just suck up to the directors until they get what they want. Or the director plays fault here too. At times, some directors have certain "favorites." By favorites I mean the director likes this certain person very much and likes giving them all the parts. Whether if they are talented or not. Also bribing is a big one as well, when somebody pays the director to give them the part they want. As you can see theater is not always fair. People will be people and bend and shape the rules in whichever way they want. Sometimes the most talented people don't get what they deserve.

I have personally gone through this and so have many of my close friends. You eventually learn how to deal with this nonsense and move on. The good part from this is that you build a stronger backbone and it makes it easier to take in rejection and yes favoritism too. Even though theater has it's ups and downs, if you really love it; it's worth all the pain and tears. And it definitely is. :)