Student Finally Gets to Complain about Playfest

The New Play Festival at Clark University, affectionately known as Playfest, is producing six student-written plays which will be performed in November, thus offering plenty of opportunities for students to complain about getting involved. Audrey Aaronson (’18), a sophomore at Clark, has been looking for an opportunity to take part in Playfest so she can in turn take part in the creative, fulfilling, and constructive activity of complaining about it.

Aaronson told The Freudian Slip, “I went to auditions and didn’t get a part which made me really worried. ”I thought I would never get a chance to complain about it!” Aaronson stressed her fear of feeling left out, “All of my friends either got parts in the plays or are helping with the production of the festival, so they all get to complain about it constantly. At a certain point I really lost hope of ever getting the chance to show the theater community on campus how good of a complainer I can be”.

Luckily, last Wednesday an opportunity arose for Aaronson to step in as a lighting designer after a student realized he “couldn’t commit the time to do all of that complaining”. Aaronson commented to The Freudian Slip, “I get it. You have to be able to put in the time, otherwise, why bother? You don’t want to stretch yourself too thin and not have the time to complain to everyone who is around you about it properly”.

Now that she is finally involved in Playfest, Aaronson promises that she will do the best she can to complain as professionally and discreetly as she can about everything and everyone involved.

The Freudian Slip attempted to schedule a follow-up meeting with Aaronson, but Aaronson replied with a text saying “UGH sorry I can’t… I have rehearsals like all the time… Seriously it’s ridiculous”.

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