Technical Theatre - Blog Posts

"[actor name] does The Thing" What thing?

"Lights go on [actor name]" Where are they?

"[actor name] grabs prop" WHAT PROP!?!? WHERE IS IT??

Do you ever leave yourself a note

And go “This is going to be very unhelpful when I read it later”

…and then do it anyway???

There was one actor that was on stage crew like twice and was like 'She always communicated with me!' like im sorry bro were you TECHNICALLY the ONLY PERSON on stage crew for a super set-heavy and tech-heavy show? Did you have to paint multiple set pieces last minute during tech week? I don't think so.

My stress inducing director is gone!

She decided to move to another school and didn't tell us, just like how she never told me whenever the show order changed. It hasn't really sunk in yet, but I am relieved. That woman was the cause of so much of my anxiety and she is finally gone.

Some of the actors are like: "omg she was so nice!!!". Honey, please. "She communicated with me so well!!!" Seriously?

Ah, the duality of man.

Anyways, we're getting a different drama teacher to run our theatre company this year, so that's gonna hopefully be fun.

I have some great news to tell my therapist.

Yeah that "WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!" during a scene caught everyone off guard lol

Our last show went well!

There were no sound mistakes (ok that's a lie there was a really small one but no one noticed) and only a few lighting mistakes but whatever. At least no one noticed that much.

Also, the actors included some funny off-script lines for this last show, so me and the lights designer had to keep ourselves from laughing while doing transitions.

lol we were wildinnnnnnn that rehearsal!

we made many inside jokes and funnies

The most crazy Queue To Queue I've done:

so, the actors decided instead of just skipping over scenes by having their first and last line, to give a summary of what happened in their scene, sparking lines such as "so I'm sad and I hate you" and "well, my dad left me. Time to leave!"

other times, due to such quick changes, some actors would mess up their costume changes. An actor arrived onstage with his jacket practically on his face. Another abandoned their high heels and stood on tip-toe half the time.

I also got to RickRoll everyone during the sound check.

and don't forget:

"Oh, we can figure it out next week." *Doesn't give time to work on it next week*

*Laughs when someone is stressed* "I'm not laughing."

"Why are you all so tired?" *It's literally 8oclock*

*I slightly raise my voice* "Don't yell at me."

*Doesn't tell me the set for a scene* "You should know the set!"

things my director has said and done that makes me hate them so much:

"Oh, we don't need to worry about lights and sound until tech rehearsals, you don't need to write anything down." *a little later* "Why didn't you write anything down?"

"This show will be much less stressful." *adds projections*

*casts new company members as actors instead of letting me ask them about backstage work*

"You have no reason to be stressed out."