OK, so in Intro to Theatre this semster, I have my students do a final project. They read a play that we have not covered in class and they choose from several options: playwright, actor, designer, publicity, etc. and do that job for the play they choose. Top two plays are: A Raisin in the Sun and Death of a Salesman...ugh...if I never see another project on either of those, I...but I digress... A student did a publicity campaign on A Raisin in the Sun. I ask them to do a short presentation where they tell me what their target audience is and their theme for the campaign (which is supposed to be in line with the director's concept). She got up and said, "my target audience is everyone because everyone should see this play...sigh...whatever. Then she held up her poster. It had a 5-year-old's drawing of a yellow sun, and below the sun was lettering on it for the title, date, time, etc. She said, "well, my theme is, well, there's a sun on it..." I thought good god...yawn, lame... THIS IS NOT THE BEST PART.
After class I was carrying the poster to my office and the graphics design prof and a music prof were standing outside my office. I said sarcastically, "look, this is from my star pupil." The graphics guys goes, "where is the raisin?" The music guy goes, "right there." Ready??!!! She had ACTUALLY DRAWN A RAISIN UNDER THE SUN on the poster. OMG!! If I had seen that in class I would have fallen out of my chair in hysterics. Maybe I'll post a picture one day. I'm so glad I'm on winter break....
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I once worked an event hosted by a prominent local art collector. The invitees were "up and coming" contemporary artists and their guests. On the kitchen bar sat a paper mache' wedding cake covered in cobwebs. One of the invited artist's guest inquired of me: "What is this?" I relplied: "It reminds me of Mrs. Haversham.", to which she said: "Oh, I saw that movie! :)"
ReplyDeleteHer artist/escort winked at me and said: "Soooo wrong answer."