Cory C.

Dear Athena,
I am running a gig soon and have this problem. This one guy wants to play everyone else’s part besides his, and everyone else is worried about their parts that I’ve given to them. The gig is coming soon and everyone is being frantic about it. At this rate the parts will never be fulfilled.
It all started after we got the bright idea to reinact a play with two lovers ending in their deaths. We all met up at our destination, I called them out by name and told them their roles. The youngest of them came to me first and was complaining about playing as the girl that dies within the play. He was talking about how he was growing in a beard and wouldn’t be fit for the female part of the play. I told him that we will just put a mask over him so no one will know. The next person who kept on asking for everyone else’s part but his own for some odd reason and would not drop the subject about it even though he is horrible at all of the parts he has been trying to go for.
With all of this chaos going on I do not know what I should do. Should I change the parts or should I ignore it. Should I have them go on with the current assigned parts and risk the fact that they might mess up from all of the stress?